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FORTY-FIFTH  CONGRESS,  THIRD  SESSION. 

CONGRESS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 
IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  February  24,  1879. 

Resolved  by  the  House  of  Representatives  (the  Senate  concurring),  That  twelve 
thousand  copies  of  the  memorial  addresses  delivered  in  the  Senate  and  House  of 
Representatives  upon  the  late  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  late  a  Representative  from  the 
State  of  Georgia,  be  printed ;  of  which  three  thousand  copies  shall  be  for  the  use 
of  the  Senate  and  nine  thousand  for  the  use  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 

Attest : 

GEO.  M.  ADAMS,  Clerk. 


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ADDRESSES 


DEATH  OF  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE, 


PROCEEDINGS  IN  THE  HOUSE. 


JANUARY  8,  1879. 

Mr.  COOK.  Mr.  Speaker,  it  is  my  painful  duty  to  announce  the 
death  of  my  colleague,  Hon.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  which  took  place 
at  his  room  in  this  city  at  six  and  a  half  o'clock  this  morning.  At 
some  future  time  I  shall  ask  that  a  day  be  set  for  the  consideration 
of  appropriate  obituary  resolutions.  I  offer  now  the  resolutions  which 
I  send  to  the  desk. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows  : 

Resolved,  That  the  House  has  heard  with  sincere  regret  the  an 
nouncement  of  the  death  of  Hon.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  late  a  Repre 
sentative  from  the  State  of  Georgia. 

Resolved  by  the  House  of  Representatives  (the  Senate  concurring), 
That  a  special  joint  committee  of  seven  Members  and  three  Senators 
be  appointed  to  take  order  for  superintending  the  funeral  and  to 
escort  the  remains  of  the  deceased  to  his  late  residence  in  Georgia ; 
and  the  necessary  expenses  attending  the  execution  of  this  order  shall 
be  paid  out  of  the  contingent  fund  of  the  House. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  communicate  the  foregoing  resolutions 
to  the  Senate. 

Resolved,  That  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased 
this  House  do  now  adjourn. 

The  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted. 


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The  SPEAKER  announced  the  appointment  of  the  following-named 
members  as  the  committee  on  the  part  of  the  House  under  the  sec 
ond  resolution :  Mr.  PHILIP  COOK,  of  Georgia;  Mr.  SAMUEL  S.  Cox, 
of  New  York;  Mr.  GEORGE  C.  CABELL,  of  Virginia;  Mr.  JOSEPH  C. 
STONE,  of  Iowa;  Mr.  ROBERT  H.  M.  DAVIDSON,  of  Florida;  Mr. 
CARTER  H.  HARRISON,  of  Illinois;  and  Mr.  JOHN  I.  MITCHELL,  of 
Pennsylvania;  and  then,  in  accordance  with  the  last  resolution,  the 
House  (at  twelve  o'clock  and  twenty  minutes  p.  m.)  adjourned. 


JANUARY  9,  1879. 

Mr.  COOK.     I  offer  the  following  resolutions. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  the  funeral  ceremonies  of  Hon.  JULIAN  HART- 
RIDGE,  late  a  Representative  in  this  body  from  the  State  of  Georgia, 
be  held  at  three  o'clock  p.  m.  this  day  in  this  Hall. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  communicate  the  foregoing  resolutions 
to  the  Senate,  and  invite  the  Senate  to  attend  said  funeral  ceremonies. 

The  resolutions  were  adopted  unanimously. 

A  message  from  the  Senate,  by  Mr.  Sympson,  one  of  its  clerks, 
announced  the  adoption  of  the  following  resolution : 

Resolved,  That,  pursuant  to  the  invitation  of  the  House  of  Repre 
sentatives,  the  Senate  will  attend  the  funeral  ceremony  of  Hon. 
JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  late  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
from  the  State  of  Georgia,  in  the  Hall  of  the  House  of  Representa 
tives  this  day  at  three  o'clock. 

At  three  o'clock  the  Senate  of  the  United  States,  preceded  by  the 
Sergeant-at-Arms  and  headed  by  the  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States,  with  the  Secretary,  the  Chief  Justice  and  associate  justices  of 
the  Supreme  Court,  and  the  President  of  the  United  States  and  the 
members  of  his  Cabinet,  entered  the  Hall,  were  properly  announced, 
and  were  then  conducted  to  the  seats  assigned  them. 


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At  fifteen  minutes  past  three  o'clock  the  casket  containing  the 
remains  was  brought  into  the  Hall,  preceded  by  the  Chaplain  of  the 
House,  the  committee  of  arrangements,  and  the  Senators  and  Repre 
sentatives  from  Georgia. 

The  Chaplain  of  the  House,  Rev.  W.  P.  HARRISON,  D.  D.,  read 
the  ninetieth  psalm  and  selections  from  the  epistle  according  to  Saint 
John,  the  book  of  Job,  and  the  first  epistle  of  Timothy.  He  then 
offered  the  following  prayer : 

Almighty  God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  we  are  assembled  together 
this  day  on  a  solemn  occasion.  It  has  pleased  Thee  in  Thy  myste 
rious  providence  to  call  from  earth  into  eternity  one  whom  we  loved, 
a  member  of  this  House  of  Representatives,  one  of  the  chosen  serv 
ants  of  this  people.  We  can  but  bow,  O  God,  in  submission  to  this 
affliction  of  Thy  providence,  and  we  pray  Thee  that  while  we  con 
sider  this  day  the  death  of  our  departed  friend,  oh  impress  upon  us 
the  solemn  truth  that  we  too  are  mortal,  that  we  are  passing  away, 
that  very  soon  the  place  that  knows  us  now  will  know  us  here  no 
more  forever. 

Oh  Infinite  Spirit,  apply  the  lesson  of  this  hour  to  every  heart.  Oh 
God,  help  us  to  reverence  Thy  name  and  Thy  law  and  to  fear  Thee 
as  the  beginning  of  wisdom,  to  give  Thee  our  heart-service,  to  dedi 
cate  our  lives  to  Thy  glory  upon  the  earth,  that  we  may  fulfill  every 
duty,  that  with  fidelity  in  all  things  we  may  honor  Thy  name  and 
serve  our  generation. 

Oh  God,  look  in  pity,  in  tender  compassion,  upon  the  family  of 
this  deceased  brother.  Oh  Thou  that  hast  promised  to  be  a  husband 
to  the  widow  and  a  father  to  the  fatherless,  care  tenderly  for  them. 
Do  Thou  soften  this  heavy  stroke  by  the  consolations  of  Thy  Holy 
Spirit ;  and  as  no  man  can  minister  to  grief  so  deep  and  so  dark,  Oh 
Infinite  God  do  Thou  give  solace,  and  in  Thy  compassion  and  Thy 
tender  mercy  may  they  find  resignation  and  peace. 

Go  with  us,  Oh  God,  to  the  remainder  of  our  life's  short  journey, 


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prepare  us  for  every  duty  to  Thee,  to  our  country,  to  ourselves. 
May  we  be  faithful  to  all  trusts;  may  we  serve  Thee  with  a  perfect 
heart,  and  when  we  too  shall  lie  cold  in  death,  when  we  shall  appear 
in  the  presence  of  our  Infinite  Judge,  oh  God,  grant  unto  us  in  the 
parting  hour  confidence  in  Thy  mercy,  trust  in  Thy  redeeming  power, 
and  in  the  heaven  of  everlasting  peace  receive  us  all  at  last,  through 
Jesus  Christ  our  Redeemer.  Amen. 

The  Chaplain  next  read  selections  out  of  the  fifteenth  chapter  of 
the  first  epistle  of  Saint  Paul  to  the  Corinthians,  and  afterward  ad 
dressed  the  House  as  follows : 

All  that  is  mortal,  my  beloved  hearers,  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE, 
Representative  in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  from  the  State 
of  Georgia,  lies  before  us.  Suddenly  in  a  day,  without  warning,  cut 
down  as  by  a  single  stroke  of  the  great  reaper,  Death.  In  the  prime 
of  life  and  vigor  of  his  days  his  sun  has  gone  down  while  it  was  yet 
high  noon. 

It  is  not  my  purpose  to  speak  of  him  as  a  man,  as  a  friend,  and  a 
public  servant.  This  task  belongs  to  other  and  more  capable  friends. 
Only  those  who  knew  him  intimately,  who  knew  him  well  in  all  the 
closer  relations  of  private  friendship,  were  fully  prepared  to  appre 
ciate  his  worth. 

It  may  be  permitted  to  me  to  echo  what  I  believe  to  be  the  general 
sentiment  of  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  all  who  knew  him.  As 
a  man,  frank  in  disposition,  courteous  in  manner,  generous  in  spirit, 
brave  in  principle,  true  to  every  trust  reposed  in  him.  As  a  man, 
modest,  retiring,  somewhat  reticent,  and  therefore  needed  to  be  thor 
oughly  and  closely  cultivated  in  order  to  be  fully  understood  and 
appreciated.  As  a  public  servant,  trusted  in  early  life  with  the 
responsibilities  of  a  high  station  among  his  fellow-citizens,  repeatedly 
the  subject  of  their  choice  in  various  public  stations  in  his  own  State, 
and  for  nearly  four  years  in  this  House  a  Representative  of  his  people. 
Everywhere  that  he  was  known,  by  all  with  whom  he  came  in  con- 


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tact,  I  believe  it  to  be  simply  true  to  say  that  he  was  thoroughly 
esteemed  and  fondly  loved  as  a  friend,  as  a  man. 

His  mind  was  clear  and  logical,  having  the  peculiar  characteristics 
which  qualified  him  for  the  thorough  mastery  of  the  science  of  the 
law.  His  life  devoted  to  this  profession,  preferred  by  him  above  all 
others,  it  was  but  recently  that  he  refused  to  be  a  candidate  for  re- 
nomination  to  the  office  which  he  had  filled  in  this  Government, 
preferring  the  private  duties,  the  labors  and  toils  and  the  promises 
of  his  own  profession  to  public  life. 

A  rapidly  extending  practice,  a  rapidly  growing  interest  called  his 
attention  home;  and  so  he  was  awaiting  but  the  lapse  of  the  few 
weeks  that  remain  of  this  present  Congress  to  retire  to  his  native 
place  and  give  himself  wholly  to  the  duties  of  the  legal  profession. 

Alas,  how  frail  are  human  expectations!  How  suddenly  are  our 
hopes  blasted!  Oh,  how  vain  are  the  calculations  of  man  trusting 
to  a  long  life,  to  a  prosperous  and  useful  future!  In  a  moment  cut 
down  and  he  himself  summoned  to  the  bar  of  his  Judge! 

While  I  leave  to  others  to  portray  his  character,  as  a  minister  of 
the  everlasting  gospel  of  the  Son  of  God  it  becomes  my  duty  to 
press  upon  your  attention  the  solemn  lesson  of  this  hour.  As  he  lies 
cold  in  the  coffin  to-day,  you  and  I,  my  hearers,  must  lie  before  many 
days  have  passed  away.  It  is  but  a  trite  statement  of  the  truth,  and 
it  is  one  that  we  have  avoided  and  have  endeavored  to  put  away 
from  thought  and  conscience;  but  death  is  a  certainty.  Whatever 
else  may  happen  to  you  and  to  me,  we  must  die.  If  you  or  I 
were  able  to  gather  together  all  the  wealth  of  the  world  we  could 
not  postpone,  much  less  prevent,  that  solemn  hour.  Whatever  sta 
tion  you  may  occupy  in  society,  you  may  illustrate  the  glory  of  your 
country,  you  may  write  your  names  high  upon  the  temple  of  fame, 
the  world  may  be  filled  with  the  testimonials  of  its  applause  at  your 
achievements,  but  though  you  stand  in  fame's  highest  niche,  out  of 
that  you  must  come  down  and  fill  the  narrow  house  of  clay.  The 


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warrior  may  grasp  all  the  world  as  the  prize  of  his  skill  on  the  battle 
field,  and  while  the  wreath  is  being  placed  upon  his  brow  the  insid 
ious  archer,  Death,  shall  strike  his  vitals  with  the  poisoned  arrow, 
and  the  wreath  of  fame  will  be  transferred  from  the  throbbing  brow 
to  the  pale  memory  of  a  man  that  was. 

However  we  may  fulfill,  however  we  may  dignify,  the  trusts  com 
mitted  to  our  hands,  faithful  or  unfaithful,  true  or  untrue  to  them, 
in  any  event,  in  every  event,  this,  among  all  uncertainties  of  time, 
this  is  certain — that  we  must  die.  Let  us  not  put  away  the  consider 
ation  of  this  thought  because  it  is  appalling,  because  it  brings  to  the 
conscience  and  to  the  heart  a  tremor  and  a  fear  that  is  dreadful.  We 
must  consider  it;  it  is  wisdom  to  think  of  it;  it  is  the  highest  wisdom 
to  prepare  for  it  and  so  to  live  as  that  whenever  death  may  come  we 
shall  be  prepared  to  answer  the  summons. 

You,  my  fellow-countrymen,  you  who  are  representatives  of  this 
great  people,  having  responsibilities  intrusted  to  you  as  broad  as  the 
mighty  land  you  serve,  you  are  in  an  especial  sense  the  ministers  of 
the  great  God,  the  ruler  of  nations  and  of  men.  Your  public  trusts 
will  be  judged  by  those  who  committed  them  to  your  care,  and  before 
that  bar  of  judgment  you  periodically  stand;  but  the  accountability 
to  the  Judge  of  all  men,  to  our  Creator,  our  Preserver,  our  Redeemer, 
that  is  immediate;  it  is  direct;  it  is  unavoidable. 

I  have  no  right  to  enter  into  the  secret  councils  of  any  man's 
thought,  nor  can  I  come  between  him  and  the  Infinite  Father.  But 
to-day  I  solemnly  exhort  you.  Oh,  to-day  I  dare  ask  you  this  mo 
mentous  inquiry:  Are  you,  as  representative  men  of  this  nation,  by 
precept  and  example  giving  forth  to  those  you  represent,  to  the 
people  whom  you  serve,  such  testimonies  of  moral  rectitude  and 
purity  and  goodness  as  they  ought  to  follow,  that  following  you  they 
may  glorify  God  and  serve  their  generation?  The  very  uncertainty 
of  the  time  of  death  is  often  an  excuse  for  our  postponing  its  consid 
eration.  We  must  die;  that  is  certain.  We  do  not  know  when  we 


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shall  die;  the  hour  is  uncertain.  It  may  be  in  a  month,  a  week,  a 
day,  an  hour  hence  that  our  God  shall  call  us  to  answer  for  the 
trusts  reposed  in  our  hands.  Oh,  to-day  may  the  Infinite  Spirit  seal 
the  solemn  lesaon  twice  repeated  within  twenty  days  to  the  members 
of  this  House  and  of  this  Congress.  Oh,  to-day  may  the  Infinite 
Spirit  seal  this  lesson  upon  our  hearts,  and  may  we,  serving  our 
country  as  fulfilling  a  duty  to  God  himself,  so  serve  God  in  all  our 
actions,  private  and  public,  as  that  He  may  be  pleased  to  own 
our  labors,  with  gracious  benediction  to  bless  us,  and  make  us  the 
examples  that  others  may  follow  in  safety;  and  when  these  days  of 
ours  are  numbered  and  our  short  life  is  passed  away,  oh  that  you,  my 
hearers,  that  we  all,  may  pass  out  of  the  darkness,  out  of  the  clouds, 
out  of  the  uncertainties,  out  of  the  doubts,  out  of  the  mysteries  of 
this  brief  life  into  the  eternal  day  of  peace  and  rest  at  God's  right 
hand. 

Rev.  BYRON  S'JNDERLAND,  D.  D.,  Chaplain  of  the  Senate,  then 
offered  the  following  prayer: 

Oh  God,  Most  High,  King  Eternal,  Immortal,  Invisible,  suffer  us 
not  in  any  blindness  of  nature,  in  any  severity  of  trouble,  to  doubt 
of  Thy  fatherhood.  Suffer  us  not  in  any  pride  of  reason  or  vanity 
of  conceit  to  despise  Thy  chastening  and  set  at  naught  thy  reproof. 
Though  we  are  all  as  men  of  unclean  lips  before  Thee,  yet  is  there 
not  in  the  wide  universe  any  friend  for  us  like  Thee.  There  is  none 
like  Thee  to  love  us.  Though  we  cannot  resolve  the  mystery  of  our 
complication  with  the  evil  of  the  world,  yet  in  our  struggle  to  be  free 
we  would  fain  put  all  our  trust  in  Thee  as  our  all-sufficient  help. 

Oh  God,  remember  the  days  of  our  mourning  and  out  of  our  dark 
ness  create  Thou  for  us  the  light  of  immortal  hope.  Let  not  the  fail 
ures  of  this  life  nor  even  the  deliquium  of  death  itself  prostrate  us 
and  cast  us  down  with  dismay,  since  Thou  hast  opened  for  us  the 
portals  of  eternity  and  made  even  the  grave  itself  but  the  gateway 
to  a  realm  of  everlasting  honor  and  renown. 


2  H 


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Be  graciously  pleased  to  comfort  those  that  weep  for  the  father  and 
friend  who  lies  low  in  this  Hall.  In  this  deep  gloom  who  can  embrace 
them  but  Thee  ?  Be  with  Thy  servants  who  shall  go  to  bear  him 
away  out  of  the  great  station  from  which  thou  hast  so  suddenly  sum 
moned  him  to  his  distant  home,  where  the  light  of  earth  is  gone  out 
forever.  Send  Thine  angels  to  whisper  to  the  widow's  heart  and 
stricken  children  that  solace  which  can  come  alone  from  Thee.  Oh 
Lord  of  Grace  keep  them  in  Thy  peace.  And  now,  we  beseech 
Thee,  be  favorable  to  Thy  servants,  the  President  of  the  United 
States  and  to  all  our  public  rulers,  counselors,  law-givers,  magistrates, 
judges,  governors,  officers,  and  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  land,  that 
righteousness  and  truth  may  be  the  stability  of  our  times,  and  that 
we  may  be  a  people  to  Thy  praise,  in  all  our  generation,  through 
Jesus  Christ.  Amen. 

The  benediction  having  been  pronounced  by  the  Chaplain  of  the 
House,  Rev.  W.  P.  HARRISON,  the  remains  of  the  deceased  were  then 
removed  from  the  Hall,  followed  by  the  Georgia  delegation  and  the 
committee  of  arrangements,  to  be  conveyed  to  his  late  residence  at 
Savannah,  Georgia;  and  the  President  of  the  United  States,  the  mem 
bers  of  the  Cabinet,  the  Chief-Justice  and  associate  justices  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  and  the  members  of  the  Senate  retired  from  the  Hall. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  COLE  (at  four  o'clock  and  fifty-five  minutes  p. 
m.),  the  House  adjourned. 


FEBRUARY  8,  1879. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  COOK,  it  was  ordered  that  Thursday,  February 
13,  instant,  at  three  o'clock  p.  m.,  be  set  apart  for  eulogies  upon  the 
late  Hon.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE. 


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FEBRUARY  13,  1879. 

The  hour  of  three  o'clock  p.  m.  having  arrived,  the  House,  under 
its  previous  order,  proceeded  to  pay  the  last  honors  to  the  memory 
of  Mr.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  late  a  Representative  from  the  State  of 
Georgia. 

Mr.  COOK.     Mr.  Speaker,  I  offer  the  following  resolutions. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  this  House  has  heard  with  profound  regret  of  the 
death  of  Hon.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  a  Representative  from  the  State 
of  Georgia. 

Resolved,  That  the  House  do  now  suspend  the  consideration  of 
other  business,  in  order  to  pay  proper  respect  to  the  memory  of  the 
lamented  deceased. 

Resolved,  That  in  token  of  regard  for  the  memory  of  the  lamented 
deceased  the  members  of  this  House  do  wear  the  usual  badge  of 
mourning  for  thirty  days. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  this  House  do  communicate  these 
resolutions  to  the  Senate  of  the  United  States. 

Resolved,  That  out  of  further  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased 
this  House  do  now  adjourn. 


ADDRESS    OF    yViR.    poOK,     OF    pEORGIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  born  in  the  city  of  Savan 
nah,  Georgia,  in  September,  1829,  and  died  in  this  city  on  the  £th 
day  of  January,  1879.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  a  prominent  and 
successful  merchant  of  Savannah,  who  gave  to  his  son  all  the  educa 
tional  advantages  within  his  reach.  At  the  Chatham  Academy,  a 
school  then  distinguished  of  its  kind;  at  the  Montpelier  Institute, 
presided  over  by  the  late  Bishop  Elliott,  of  Georgia,  and  at  other 


ADDRESS    OF   MR.    COOK   ON   THE 


educational  establishments  in  the  interior  of  the  State,  JULIAN  HART- 
RIDGE  passed  the  school  days  of  his  boyhood.  From  the  first  he 
was  a  bright  and  apt  scholar,  standing  at  the  head  of  his  classes  and 
mastering  with  equal  facility  the  classics  and  the  sterner  routine  of 
mathematics  in  advance  of  the  boys  of  his  own  age.  Even  then  he 
developed  a  marked  capacity  for  speaking  in  one  so  young  and 
modest,  and  soon  attained  rank  as  an  excellent  declaimer. 

When  prepared  for  college,  he  entered  Brown  University,  at  Provi 
dence,  Rhode  Island,  an  institution  of  high  renown,  then  under  the 
presidency  of  the  eminent  Dr.  Wayland.  His  class  was  one  of  rare 
ability,  being  composed  for  the  most  part  of  young  men  from  the 
best  families  of  the  neighboring  New  England  States.  Though  by 
no  means  a  studious  youth  or  devoted  to  the  daily  duties  laid  down 
in  the  curriculum,  he  immediately  took  high  rank  in  a  class  which 
numbered  among  its  members  the  present  distinguished  chancellor 
of  the  University  of  Michigan,  Mr.  Angel,  and  others  who  have 
made  their  marks  on  the  hustings,  in  the  forum,  and  in  the  councils 
of  the  country.  His  powers  of  oratory  and  composition  made  up  in 
a  measure  for  his  other  delinquencies,  and  it  is  no  disparagement  of 
his  old  and  treasured  associates  to  say,  nor  will  one  of  them  dissent 
from  the  assertion,  that  he  might  at  will  have  borne  off  the  honors 
of  his  class. 

After  graduation  he  attended  a  course  of  law  lectures  at  Cam 
bridge,  Massachusetts,  and,  after  service  in  the  law  office  of  Judge 
Robert  M.  Charlton,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  settled  down  for 
practice  in  his  native  city.  Success  attended  him  from  the  inception 
of  his  career,  and  he  was  soon  elected  by  the  legislature  of  Georgia 
to  the  office  of  solicitor-general  of  the  eastern  judicial  circuit.  In  the 
discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  office  he  was  thrown  into  almost  daily 
antagonism  with  a  bar  of  exceptional  power  and  brilliancy,  composed 
of  such  men  as  Charlton,  Law,  Ward,  Owens,  Lawton,  Jackson,  and 
others,  whose  names  and  achievements  are  part  of  the  history  of  the 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN   HARTRIDGE.  13 

State.  He  bore  himself  admirably,  winning  much  of  fame,  something 
of  fortune,  and  troops  of  friends,  who  ever  afterward  followed  his 
career  as  clients.  In  this  arena  and  in  the  contests  which  it  evoked 
he  laid  the  foundation  of  that  professional  learning  and  ability  which 
subsequently  carried  him  to  the  leadership  of  the  bar  at  an  age  when 
most  of  the  men  of  his  time  were  patiently  struggling  far  below. 

Yielding  to  the  persuasion  of  personal  and  political  friends,  he 
served  one  term  in  the  general  assembly  of  the  State,  where  his  tal 
ents  and  eloquence  enlarged  his  growing  reputation  and  usefulness. 
He  was  chosen  and  served  as  delegate  in  the  Democratic  convention 
of  1860  at  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  and  Baltimore,  Maryland. 
The  breaking  out  of  the  late  civil  war  found  him  a  prominent,  pop 
ular,  and  prosperous  man.  Thoroughly  in  sympathy  with  his  State 
and  people,  he  took  the  field  with  the  Chatham  Artillery,  an  organ 
ization  in  which  he  held  the  position  of  lieutenant,  and  served  in 
that  capacity  until  he  was  elected  a  Representative  from  the  first  dis 
trict  of  Georgia  to  the  Confederate  Congress.  Here  he  served  until 
the  close  of  the  war,  occupying  a  distinguished  place  upon  the  com 
mittees  and  in  the  debates  of  the  House,  his  speech  upon  the  con 
script  act  having  marked  him  at  once  as  one  of  the  profoundest 
thinkers  and  ablest  debaters  in  a  body  composed  of  men  who  had 
justly  won  their  titles  to  eminence  in  governmental  affairs. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  his  home  and  profession 
broken  in  fortune  but  undismayed  in  spirit,  and  just  so  soon  as  order 
was  partially  restored  his  practice  began  to  grow.  Almost  his  first 
appearance  of  note  was  before  a  military  tribunal  charged  with  the 
trial  of  an  old  and  prominent  citizen  of  Georgia  for  his  life.  His 
effort  in  this  case  added  to  his  fame  and  will  stand  as  an  achieve 
ment  of  which  all  lawyers  may  well  be  proud.  Though  conviction 
followed  of  course,  the  sentence  of  the  court  remains  until  this  day 
unexecuted.  Debarred  for  a  time  in  common  with  his  fellow-citi 
zens  from  participation  in  the  political  management  of  his  State,  he 


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devoted  himself  assiduously  to  the  law,  and  with  satisfactory  results. 
When  the  sword  was  at  length  sheathed  at  the  behest  and  in  the 
presence  of  the  civil  law,  he  was  called  to  preside  over  the  first  conven 
tion  which  gave  the  State  a  chief  magistrate  chosen  by  the  people. 
He  was  then  and  there  made  chairman  of  the  State  central  executive 
committee.  Soon  after  he  was  sent  as  a  delegate  from  the  State  at 
large  to  the  Baltimore  convention,  and  in  the  ensuing  campaign  con 
tributed  largely  to  its  successful  result  by  his  canvass  as  one  of  the 
electors  for  the  State  at  large. 

Reluctantly  he  gave  up  his  profession  and  consented  to  stand  for 
the  Forty-fourth  Congress,  to  which  he  was  elected;  for,  after  ac 
cepting  the  nomination,  he  prepared  a  letter  withdrawing  from  the 
contest,  and  was  only  persuaded  by  the  strong  appeals  of  personal 
and  political  friends  from  putting  his  determination  into  execution. 
For  the  benefit  of  his  constituents  he  consented  to  election  to  the 
present  Congress,  and  then  of  his  own  volition  announced  his  retire 
ment  from  public  life. 

Mr.  Speaker,  of  his  service  here  you  and  others  can  speak.  I 
trust  I  may  not  be  accused  of  stepping  beyond  the  bounds  of  the  pro 
prieties  of  this  occasion  when  I  say  that  he  has  died  leaving  behind 
him  more  impress  upon  the  minds  and  hearts  of  his  colleagues  and 
less  upon  the  Congressional  Record  than  any  member  of  his  term  of 
service. 

Death  anticipated  but  by  a  short  time  a  step  he  deemed  incumbent 
upon  himself  in  behalf  of  those  he  held  most  dear. 

In  early  manhood  he  married  Miss  Mary  M.  Charlton,  eldest  daugh 
ter  of  his  legal  preceptor,  Judge  Robert  M.  Charlton,  one  of  the 
purest  and  ablest  of  Georgia  jurists,  and  once  a  Senator  in  the  United 
States  Congress.  Seven  children  were  the  fruit  of  this  union,  six  of 
whom  survive,  and  the  youngest  was  born  at  the  moment  when  his 
father  was  eloquently  defending  his  people  in  the  matter  of  what  is 
called  the  Hamburgh  massacre. 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF  JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  15 

There  may  perhaps  be  around  me  gentlemen  who,  in  recalling  his 
words  on  that  occasion,  still  regard  as  a  rhetorical  flourish  snatched 
up  for  the  occasion  his  touching  allusion  to  the  bond  which  bound 
him  to  the  slave  who  cradled  him  in  her  arms  and  soothed  with  songs 
the  passing  sorrows  of  his  childhood.  It  is  not  strange  that  those 
nurtured  under  different  conditions  should  fail  to  appreciate  the  tie 
that  ran  from  master  to  man  before  it  was  rudely  sundered  by  the 
hand  of  war,  but  those  who  saw  the  black  man  and  the  white  man 
under  a  common  flag  and  command  bear  to  the  sound  of  the  muffled 
drum  our  friend  to  his  last  home,  and  who  on  that  Sabbath  morning 
witnessed  the  unfeigned  grief  of  the  throng  of  all  classes  and  condi 
tions  as  the  funeral  cortege  moved  through  the  streets  of  Savannah, 
will  not  be  slow  to  say  that  all  classes  of  a  community  there  mingled 
in  a  common  grief  at  a  common  calamity. 

JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  died  as  his  star  was  in  the  ascendant.  On 
either  side  fame  and  fortune  seemed  to  be  waiting  and  beckoning  to 
him  with  kindly  hands.  He  had  declined  a  place  upon  the  supreme 
bench  of  his  State,  the  goal  of  the  ambitious  in  his  profession,  and 
had  laid  aside  the  power  and  place  of  a  Representative  of  the  people 
just  as  his  name  and  fame  were  becoming  familiar  to  the  heart  and 
ear  of  the  country. 

We  shall  miss  him  here.  No  words  of  mine  can  say  how  the  wife 
and  children  shall  miss  him  as  the  evening  shadows  fall  darkly  and 
the  days  dawn  drearily  as  the  years  go  by. 

Mr.  Speaker,  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  a  type  of  the  men  of  the 
South  of  his  day  and  generation.  He  was  ambitious  of  profes 
sional  and  political  distinction,  but  his  ambition  was  toned  and 
tempered  by  prudence  and  modesty  and  never  marred  by  jealousy 
or  passion.  He  was  conservative  in  temper,  thought,  and  action. 
No  man  was  a  cooler,  safer  counselor,  truer  to  his  convictions,  and 
braver  in  their  support.  He  was  not  polemic  in  mind  or  aggressive 
in  action,  and  preferred  to  reach  his  fellow-men  through  the  roads 


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of  reason  and  logic  rather  than  by  appeals  to  their  passions  and 
prejudices. 

Diffident  of  his  own  powers,  he  would  tremble  as  a  debutante,  even 
in  the  latter  days  of  his  professional  life,  as  the  time  came  for  him  to 
take  his  place  before  a  jury.  Once  warmed  up  to  the  task  before 
him,  like  one  in  battle,  he  soon  became  oblivious  to  his  surroundings 
and  regarded  only  the  duty  in  front.  His  professional  associates  will 
long  recall  his  even  and  urbane  manner  on  all  occasions.  He  never 
assailed,  and  only  when  hardly  pressed  would  let  fly  a  sarcasm  to 
show  an  antagonist  that  he  wore  steel  and  knew  its  use.  Thoroughly 
grounded  in  the  law,  he  despised  its  technicalities,  loved  its  broad 
and  ruling  principles,  and  rested  the  cause  of  his  clients  upon  the 
foundations  of  logic  and  reason;  but  when  yoked  to  the  weaker  side, 
he  could  cloak  under  a  smooth  and  captivating  eloquence  an  auda 
cious  sophistry  calculated  to  baffle  the  soundest  judgment.  He  was 
a  thinker  rather  than  a  student,  was  restless  in  the  presence  of  labor, 
yet  when  the  necessity  could  no  longer  be  postponed  was  capable  of 
almost  superhuman  effort  in  the  way  of  self-abstraction  and  incessant 
work. 

In  private  life  he  was  quiet,  gentle,  and  unobtrusive;  so  shy  some 
times  that  those  who  knew  him  little  mistook  for  hauteur  what  was 
really  a  modest  reserve. 

As  a  husband  and  father,  he  was  kind  and  indulgent  to  a  fault.  To 
his  children  he  was  always  a  playmate  and  friend;  and,  once  nestled 
in  the  bosom  of  his  family,  it  took  matters  of  moment  to  call  him 
away. 

As  a  statesman,  he  was  broad  and  liberal,  and  well  illustrated  the 
State  that  gave  him  to  the  Federal  Council.  Within  the  sound  of 
my  voice  are  those  who  will  recall  his  words  and  bearing  in  the  last 
perilous  crisis  of  the  Republic.  When  the  sword  was  threatening  to 
sever  the  Gordian  knot  made  by  a  doubtful  election,  and  revolution 
threatened  to  rear  its  head  within  these  halls,  here,  under  this  broad 


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shield  of  the  State  of  Georgia,  he,  in  a  spirit  of  justice,  wisdom,  and 
moderation,  gave  his  adhesion  to  a  plan  of  adjustment  which  averted 
another  internecine  strife  with  all  of  its  attendant  horrors. 

He  was  not  without  faults.  In  common  with  his  fellows,  he  took 
place  on  the  lower  side  of  that  line  which  divides  Omnipotence  from 
frailty,  and  marks  the  difference  between  man  and  his  Maker. 
Though  never  a  professor  of  the  tenets  of  any  Church,  he  respected 
profoundly  those  who  honestly  and  consistently  adhered  to  them, 
and  himself  cherished  an  abiding  faith  in  the  great  cardinal  and 
catholic  principles  of  the  Christian  religion. 

His  death,  Mr.  Speaker,  furnishes  us  with  another  striking  instance 
of  the  uncertain  tenure  of  our  lives.  But  yesterday  the  people  of 
his  district  called  to  his  vacant  chair  the  judge  under  whose  sittings 
he  won  his  earliest  professional  triumphs,  the  now  Nestor  of  the  bar 
of  Georgia. 

His  last  public  duty  was  the  preparation  of  an  argument  upon  one 
of  the  great  questions  now  pending  before  this  Congress;  I  refer  to 
the  Geneva  award.  Just  as  this  was  finished  and  he  was  preparing 
to  obey  the  mandates  of  this  House  in  another  and  a  distant  field  of 
duty,  the  summons  came. 

In  the  Southern  land  where  he  sleeps  the  spring  flowers  are  already 
beginning  to  bud  and  blossom  on  his  grave;  fit  emblems  of  the  im 
mortality  of  the  soul  whose  casket  moulders  beneath. 

Mr.  Speaker,  Georgia  left  upon  the  battle-fields  of  the  late  war  the 
very  flower  of  her  chivalry.  The  young,  the  gifted,  the  brave  of  her 
children  she  sacrificed  upon  the  altar  of  her  convictions.  Is  it  to  be 
wondered,  then,  that  she  should  like  a  mother  hug  closer  to  her 
bosom  those  that  the  storm  had  spared  ? 

Upon  those  that  came  back  mangled  of  limb  or  crushed  in  heart 
she  relied  for  strength  and  guidance  in  the  future,  and  upon  none  did 
she  lean  more  heavily  than  upon  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE.  And  as  to-day 
she  bends  in  woe  over  his  newly  made  grave,  may  she  not  ask  her 


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sister  States  to  forget  the  strifes  and  estrangements  of  the  past  and 
mourn  with  her  for  the  untimely  closing  of  a  life  so  adorned  with 
noble  effort  in  the  past  and  so  full  of  promise  for  the  coming  years — 
years  that  will  never  come  ? 

Mr.  Speaker,  I  move  the  adoption  of  the  resolutions  I  have  sent  to 
the  Clerk's  desk. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  KNOTT,  OF  KENTUCKT. 

There  are  some  emotions,  Mr.  Speaker,  which  lie  forever  beyond 
the  domain  of  human  language.  The  sublimest  effort  of  inspired 
poesy  would  be  foiled  in  the  vain  endeavor  to  seek  them  an  expres 
sion.  Any  attempt  to  embody  them  in  words  would  be  but  an  empty 
mockery.  They  find  utterance  only  in  the  silent  tear,  the  broken  sob, 
or  the  wailing  cry. 

Such  is  the  voiceless  anguish  that  swells  the  aching  heart  as  we 
look  for  the  last  time  upon  the  still,  pale  features  of  one  we  have 
loved,  and  realize  in  his  pulseless  form  all  the  terrible  fact  of  death; 
that  the  melody  of  nature  is  hushed  forever  to  his. "dull,  cold  ear," 
and  that  the  cheerful  sun  will  rise  and  set  on  busy,  joyous  millions 
through  all  the  cycles  of  coming  time,  but  bring  no  light  to  his  fixed 
and  rayless  eye. 

Yet,  sir,  there  is  in  every  human  bosom  a  resistless  instinct,  a  con 
stant  longing  to  testify  in  some  manner  its  yearning  for  the  "  loved 
and  lost."  The  fading  wreath  which  affection's  hand  has  twined  about 
the  lowly  tomb  of  humble  poverty,  and  the  gorgeous  mausoleum,  with 
its  chiseled  columns  and  storied  hatchments,  and  all  the  marble  pomp 
with  which  grandeur  mourns  magnificently  over  departed  pride,  alike 
remind  us  of  this  mournful  duty  to  the  dead.  In  obedience  to  that 
heartfelt  impulse,  in  the  discharge  of  the  highest,  holiest  office  of  friend 
ship,  I  rise  to  second  the  resolutions  which  have  just  been  offered. 
In  doing  so  I  would  not  insult  the  memory  of  my  lamented  friend  by 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  19 

indulging  in  an  empty,  inflated  eulogy.  I  simply  desire  to  place  on 
record,  in  the  simple,  unaffected  language  of  affection,  my  own  im 
pressions  of  his  character  as  I  saw  it  illustrated  in  the  quiet  walks  of 
social  life  as  well  as  in  the  arena  of  public  duty. 

My  acquaintance  with  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  began  with  the  opening  of 
the  Forty-fourth  Congress,  when  a  certain  congeniality  in  taste  and 
disposition  soon  brought  us  into  relations  of  more  than  ordinary  inti 
macy.  It  was  not,  however,  until  we  became  more  closely  and  con 
stantly  associated  as  colleagues  on  the  Committee  on  the  Judiciary  in 
the  present  Congress  that  I  came  to  know  him  fully  and  appreciate 
his  real  worth. 

Handsome  in  person,  accomplished  in  intellect,  polished  in  man 
ners,  the  very  mirror  of  honor,  always  kind,  always  gentle,  always  con 
siderate  of  the  feelings  and  comfort  of  others,  generous  almost  to 
prodigality,  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  in  the  social  circle  impressed  me  as  one 
of  the  most  lovable  gentlemen  it  was  ever  my  fortune  to  meet. 
There  was  a  delicacy,  a  tenderness  indeed,  in  his  demeanor  toward 
his  associates  such  as  I  have  rarely,  if  ever,  seen  equaled,  and  which 
rendered  him  at  once  the  favorite  of  those  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact. 

As  a  lawyer  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  was  rarely  equipped.  Endowed  by 
nature  with  an  intellect  singularly  adapted  to  the  discernment  of  truth 
and  embellished  by  literary  attainments  of  the  most  liberal  descrip 
tion  acquired  in  the  best  institutions  of  learning  in  the  country,  he 
brought  to  the  pursuit  of  his  chosen  profession  an  honorable  ambition 
and  a  persevering  industry  which  speedily  secured  for  him  an  enviable 
distinction  at  the  bar  of  his  native  State.  His  mind  was  quick  and 
analytic,  yet  careful  and  cautious;  his  love  of  justice  pronounced  and 
inflexible;  his  professional  as  well  as  his  personal  integrity  unsullied 
by  the  slightest  stain;  while  his  devotion  to  his  profession  amounted 
almost  to  a  passion.  It  is  by  no  means  singular  that  qualifications 
like  these,  coupled  with  his  liberal  store  of  legal  learning,  should 


20   .  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  HENDEE  ON  THE 

justify  the  highest  expectations  of  a  brilliant  career,  so  prematurely 
terminated  by  his  melancholy  and  untimely  death. 

As  an  orator  the  deceased  was  peculiarly  gifted.  His  language 
was  unusually  chaste  and  elegant  as  well  as  easy  and  fluent,  his  elo 
cution  correct  and  impressive,  his  logic  clear  and  concise,  and  his 
voice  nlusical  and  magnetic.  Few  who  have  heard  him  here  can 
forget  the  charm  of  his  manner  or  the  force  and  perspicuity  of  his 
matter;  and  if  he  failed  to  take  the  very  foremost  rank  in  the  de 
bates  of  this  House,  of  which  he  was  such  a  conspicuous  ornament, 
it  was  solely  because  of  a  characteristic  modesty  which  made  him 
shrink  from  anything  bearing  the  semblance  of  offensive  obtrusiveness 
or  self-assertion. 

As  a  legislator  the  deceased  was  pre-eminently  conservative  and 
just,  and  although  a  Democrat  of  the  strictest  type  such  was  his  fealty 
to  his  own  convictions  of  right  that  he  did  not  hesitate  to  disregard 
the  demands  of  mere  party  exigency  whenever  there  was  a  conflict 
between  them.  As  a  member  of  the  Committee  on  the  Judiciary,  I 
but  express  the  common  sentiment  of  his  surviving  colleagues  when 
I  say  that  one  more  loved  while  he  lived,  one  more  lamented  never 
sat  around  its  board,  that — 

A  sweeter  and  a  lovelier  gentleman, — 

Framed  in  the  prodigality  of  nature, 
*  *  *  f  » 

The  spacious  world  cannot  again  afford. 
I  second  the  resolutions. 


ADDRESS  OF    M.R.   WENDEE,  OF   VERMONT. 

Again,  Mr.  Speaker,  the  gavel  falls  to  announce  the  suspension  of 
business,  to  stop  the  unsteady  wheel  of  legislation,  that  we  may  for 
the  hour  refer  to  the  life  and  refresh  our  memories  of  one  who  but 


LIFE   AND    CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  21 

recently,  and  so  recently,  Mr.  Speaker,  was  among  us  an  active  mem 
ber.  We  have  heretofore  dropped  the  silent  tear  and  strewn  tenderly 
floral  tributes,  emblems  of  affection,  purity,  and  love,  in  token  of  the 
unspoken  and  deep  respect  which  every  member  bore  the  deceased. 
To  this  time  what  has  been  done  by  this  House  has  been  in  sad 
silence,  but  now  we  come  to  speak  to  the  world  true  words  of  tribute 
to  the  memory  of  one  who  was  loved  and  honored  by  every  gentle 
man  holding  a  seat  upon  this  floor. 

Mr.  Speaker,  my  acquaintance  with  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  was  short, 
commencing  with  the  first  session  of  the  Forty-fourth  Congress;  yet 
it  was  somewhat  intimate,  as  we  were  thrown  together  much  during 
that  Congress  in  committee.  Our  acquaintance  being  short,  my 
words  to-day  must  of  necessity  be  few;  but  permit  me  to  say  that  I 
find  it  a  pleasure  to  be  permitted  thus  publicly  and  in  this  national 
Hall,  to  speak  of  the  deceased  in  words  of  commendation.  A  na 
tion's  prosperity,  a  nation's  strength,  a  nation's  greatness  depend 
largely  upon  the  character  of  its  public  men,  though  perhaps  in  a 
republic  it  may  be  true  that  such  prosperity,  strength,  and  greatness 
have  their  base  in  the  intelligence,  virtue,  and  integrity  of  the  people; 
but  unless  the  people  are  represented  by  men  of  character,  men  whose 
love  and  regard  for  right  is  above  that  for  self,  the  life  of  a  republic 
like  ours  even  must  be  short;  but  in  this  country,  I  am  safe  in  saying, 
we  have  been  particularly  fortunate  in  the  selection  of  our  public 
servants,  and  when  one  goes  out  from  among  us,  as  has  Mr.  HART 
RIDGE,  in  middle  age  and  full  of  vigor,  the  loss  in  one  sense  falls 
heaviest  upon  the  nation. 

Others  have  to-day  spoken  fitly  of  the  loss  sustained  by  family, 
relatives,  neighbors,  and  locality,  and  of  his  excellent  traits  as  a 
husband,  father,  neighbor,  and  citizen,  but  I  must  content  myself 
with  saying  a  word  only  as  to  the  man. 

Mr.  HARTRIDGE  was  quiet,  yet  strong;  unpretending,  yet  eloquent 
and  forcible;  cautious,  yet  fearless.  His  opinion  or  judgment  was 


22  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  HENDEE  ON  THE 

seldom  given  except  after  mature  thought.  A  subject  was  never  his 
to  debate  upon  till  first  fully  mastered.  He  never  thrust  himself  into 
debate,  yet  was  always  ready  to  express  himself  when  duty  called, 
and  this  he  would  do  in  the  most  simple  and  quiet  way  and  with  that 
clearness  and  force  of  language  and  reason  which  always  carry  with 
them  conviction  and  satisfy  the  hearer. 

Yes,  Mr.  Speaker,  it  must  be  said  of  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  that  he  was 
eloquent,  interesting,  and  convincing.  He  always  commanded  the 
attention  of  this  House  when  he  spoke,  and,  though  he  spoke  but 
seldom,  his  influence  was  strong  and  far-reaching. 

Mr.  HARTRIDGE  was  a  good  lawyer  and  his  profession  was  his  life. 
He  was  so  strongly  wedded  to  it  and  to  the  attachments,  comforts, 
and  quiet  of  home  that  he  refused  an  election  to  the  Forty-sixth 
Congress. 

The  Constitution  was  his  constant  study,  and  all  will  agree,  I  think, 
who  knew  him,  that  as  a  constitutional  lawyer  he  had  no  superiors 
and  but  few  equals  upon  this  floor. 

In  the  Forty-fourth,  his  first  Congress,  he  was  assigned  to  the  Com 
mittee  for  the  District  of  Columbia,  where  he  was  fully  appreciated 
and  strongly  loved  by  all  his  associates.  In  the  consideration  of 
subjects,  and  in  the  other  incident  acts  of  the  committee,  he  was 
non-partisan,  and  in  the  fullest  sense  treated  and  acted  upon  every 
proposition  with  a  view  to  its  merits  rather  than  with  a  view  to  the 
interests  of  his  party.  During  that  Congress  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  so 
exhibited  his  knowledge  of  the  law,  and  so  convinced  the  country 
and  the  members  of  the  House  of  his  ability  as  a  lawyer  and  of  his 
strong  common  sense  as  a  legislator,  that  the  fact  could  not  be  ig 
nored  that  his  place  was  on  the  Judiciary  Committee,  and  the  Speaker 
without  hesitation,  as  I  am  informed,  made  the  assignment,  and  I  am 
happy  to  say  that  no  member  on  this  floor  to  my  knowledge  ever 
questioned  the  propriety  of  the  act  or  his  fitness  for  the  position,  but, 
on  the  other  hand,  it  was  universally  conceded  that  the  honorable 


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Speaker  had  done  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  justice  and  the  country  a  bene 
ficial  service. 

While  on  this  committee  he  did  his  work  well,  and  was  respected 
and  regarded  by  every  member  of  it  as  a  gentleman,  a  sound  lawyer, 
and  a  wise  counselor. 

Further,  Mr.  Speaker,  during  the  last  and  present  Congress  my 
intercourse  with  members  has  been  free  and  quite  extensive,  and 
never  yet,  either  before  or  since  his  death,  have  I  heard  any  gentle 
man  speak  ill  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE. 

Of  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  I  was  a  warm  personal  friend,  and  that  friend 
ship  was  reciprocated.  Hence,  Mr.  Speaker,  I  feel  able  to  say  that 
as  a  friend  he  was  kind,  trusting,  true,  and  constant.  Here  below 
man  need  never  have  a  better  one. 

In  short,  Mr.  Speaker,  let  me  say  that  as  a  man  he  was  strong, 
intelligent,  honest,  industrious.  As  a  lawyer  he  was  studious,  discrim 
inating,  educated,  and  reliable.  And,  sir,  whether  on  the  street,  on 
this  floor,  in  the  court-room,  or  in  the  committee-room,  in  society  or 
in  his  home,  he  was  a  perfect  gentleman.  He  was  possessed  of  that 
peculiar  refinement  of  intellect  and  that  unassumed  quietness  of  man 
ner  that  always  endeared  him  at  once  to  those  with  whom  he  came 
in  contact,  either  socially  or  in  a  business  way.  But,  Mr.  Speaker, 
the  man,  the  lawyer,  the  statesman,  the  friend  has  gone  out  forever 
from  among  us. 

His  life-work  was  well  done,  yet  seemingly  it  was  but  half  finished, 
as  he  died  in  the  very  ripeness  of  manhood. 

He  was  full  of  life,  full  of  hope  and  ambition,  and  to  all  appear 
ance  had  before  him  a  long,  eventful,  and  honorable  career;  but  the 
mysterious  and  invisible  hand  beckoned  him  away,  and  I  will  only 
add  that  from  the  sad  event  those  of  us  who  are  left  to  utter  and 
hear  these  last  tributes  to  his  memory  should  take  heed  and  learn  for 
profit  the  lesson  it  teaches. 


24  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  COX  ON  THE 

ADDRESS  OF  MR.  pox,  OF  J^EW  JORK. 

It  is  a  wise  as  well  as  kindly  custom  to  honor  our  departed  mem 
bers.  When  that  clock  points  to  the  inevitable  hour  devoted  to 
memory  and  eulogy,  the  conflict  of  opinion,  the  storm  of  contention, 
and  the  turbulency  of  legislation  cease.  Through  the  rifted  clouds 
shines  a  serener  and  purer  sky.  What  if  the  encomiums  we  offer  are 
couched  in  formal  phrase;  what  if  sometimes  they  become  too  trite 
and  general,  and  fail  to  allure  the  ear  in  this  Chamber,  where  sen 
sations  are  masters  of  elocution;  what  if  in  laudation  we  become 
indiscreet  and  exaggerative — still  the  custom  is  one  ever  to  be  rev 
erently  observed,  as  well  for  its  benignity  to  ourselves  and  its  solem 
nity  upon  our  deliberations  as  for  the  proper  honors  to  the  dead  and 
for  the  encouragement  of  the  living. 

What  is  the  lesson  it  teaches?  What,  after  all,  is  the  glory  which 
so  attracts  us  ?  The  answer  comes  even  in  the  voice  of  the  Epicurean : 

It  is  an  echo,  a  dream ;  nay,  the  shadow  of  a  dream,  dissipated  by  every  wind, 
and  lost  by  every  contrary  breath  of  the  ignorant  and  ill-judging.  You  fear  not 
that  even  death  shall  ravish  it  from  you ;  but  behold !  while  you  are  alive  calumny 
bereaves  you  of  it;  ignorance  neglects  it;  nature  enjoys  it  not;  Fancy  alone,  re 
nouncing  every  pleasure,  receives  the  airy  recompense,  empty  and  unstable  as 
herself. 

No  one  dreamed  that,  after  the  many  deaths  in  our  body,  this  friend 
would  be  the  next.  As  we  heard  our  daily  roll-call  and  looked  upon 
our  catalogue,  he  bid  as  fair  as  any  for  longevity  in  the  chances  of 
life.  Ah!  it  was  a  sad  pen  which  inscribed  the  name  of  JULIAN 
HARTRIDGE,  of  Georgia,  upon  the  "yearly  scroll  of  fate." 

It  was  a  sad  fate  that  left  him  in  the  midst  of  his  noble  career 
withered  like  a  leaf  on  a  summer's  tree  before  the  autumn  or  winter 
came  to  chill  and  blast.  Almost  before  we  were  through  with  the 
obsequies  of  others  his  parting  knell  sounded,  and  we  bore  him  away 
to  the  endearing  circle  which  received  him  so  lovingly  in  his  beautiful 
southern  home. 


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Various  are  the  relations  we  sustain  to  each  other  in  this  House. 
It  would  take  a  Psyche  to  assort  and  arrange  the  "confused  seeds" 
out  of  which  have  grown  so  many  and  such  endearing  relations  of 
regard  and  affection.  Some  of  us  live  here  under  the  same  roof;  some 
serve  on  the  same  committee ;  some  take  the  same  side  on  favorite 
themes;  some  have  had  in  our  changeful  American  life  mutual  friends 
who  have  brought  them  together;  some  are  knit  to  each  other  by 
association  in  their  own  States;  and  others,  though  far  distant,  share 
early  and  delightful  reminiscences,  and  among  them  that  one  which 
springs  radiant  out  of  the  morning  of  life,  enhanced  and  beautified  by 
college  partialities  and  studies. 

The  relation  which  drew  me  to  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  the  last 
one.  We  were  as  far  apart  as  Ohio  and  Georgia,  where  our  parents 
lived ;  yet  we  became  children  of  the  same  parent  in  New  England. 
Our  alma  mater  was  Brown  University.  I  was  his  elder  in  the  col 
lege,  graduating  two  years  in  advance  of  him;  but  not  the  elder  in 
that  sedateness  and  reserve  which  is  supposed  to  mark  the  years  by 
the  disposition,  and  which  gives  even  to  the  young  a  strength  that 
maturity  does  not  bestow.  It  was  this  college  memory  of  our  alma 
mater  which  quickened  and  preserved  our  friendship  here. 

Having  reached  the  stadium  of  a  half  century  of  years,  memories 
of  early  associates  become  more  distinct  and  interesting.  As  I  look 
back  to  those  early  days  they  return  with  their  relict  radiance  and 
enchantment,  like  a  dawn,  all  opaline  in  the  sky,  all  diamond  on  the 
grass,  all  auroral  with  a  joyous  splendor,  through  which  glimmers  a 
mist  of  tears  for  those  who  shared  their  joyousness,  and  who  one  by 
one  fall  and  fade.  As  our  years  "slope  waning  down  the  arch,"  these 
hopes  and  illusions,  as  now  and  here,  become  memory. 

Others  may  speak  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  as  a  husband  and  father, 
of  his  affectionate  heart  and  tender  sensibilities,  and  of  his  domestic 
ties.  These,  with  all  his  reserve,  he  could  not  conceal.  Do  we  not 
recall  his  tremulous  and  tearful  tribute  to  his  old  colored  nurse,  spoken 


4  H 


26  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    COX   ON  THE 

from  yonder  desk  ?  It  was  a  perilous  theme  in  this  House,  too  often 
effusive  in  its  irreverent  mirth.  Others  may  speak  of  him  as  citi 
zen,  soldier,  lawyer,  and  man,  filling  with  uprightness  and  honesty 
all  the  relations  to  family,  client,  state,  and  society.  It  is  mine  to 
speak  of  him  as  a  scholar,  as  one  whose  mental  characteristics  were, 
as  he  often  told  me,  molded  and  inspired  by  our  grand  teacher,  Dr. 
Francis  Wayland,  and  the  corps  of  admirable  professors  associated 
with  him  at  Brown  University. 

In  making  up  manhood,  much  may  be  attributed  to  hereditary 
causes,  much  to  early  parental  guardianship  and  care,  but  more  to  the 
discipline  and  knowledge  which  education  gives.  Who  shall  under 
rate  the  beneficence,  not  to  speak  of  the  advantages,  of  education? 

It  has  been  well  said  that  "it  is  a  companion  which  no  misfortune 
can  depress,  no  crime  can  destroy,  no  enemy  can  alienate,  no  despot 
ism  enslave.  At  home  a  friend,  abroad  an  introduction,  in  solitude 
a  solace,  and  in  society  an  ornament.  It  chastens  vice,  it  guides 
virtue,  it  gives  at  once  grace  and  government  to  genius;  without  it, 
what  is  man?  A  splendid  slave,  a  reasoning  savage." 

It  is  customary  with  some  to  depreciate  scholarship.  There  are 
those  who  find  in  its  pedantry  some  sort  of  compensation  for  their  own 
want — in  the  lack  which  often  attends  mere  learning,  and  even  those 
who  are  accomplished,  sometimes  affect  to  despise  its  attainments. 

Truly,  it  is  not  alone  or  chiefly  by  books  that  manhood  is  made. 
Was  it  not  Carlyle  who  said  that  "  a  man  perfects  himself  by  work 
more  than  by  reading"?  But  he  was  discriminating;  for  he  gave 
the  meed  of  praise  to  that  growing  kind  of  men  that  combine  the 
two  things  wisely,  and  who  valiantly  do  what  is  laid  to  their  hand  in 
the  present  sphere  and  prepare  themselves  withal  for  doing  other 
wider  things  if  such  be  before  them. 

This  was  the  education  which  gave  us  the  scholarship  and  intellect 
of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE.  It  was  peculiar  to  Brown  University.  It 
was  the  educational  system  of  Dr.  Wayland.  It  lay  in  the  power  of 


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analysis.  It  was  the  dissection  of  a  subject  into  its  constituent  parts, 
to  form  a  complete  and  rounded  whole;  feres  atque  rotundus.  It  was 
the  remark  of  Professor  Greenleaf,  of  Cambridge,  that  in  the  first 
recitation  he  could  tell  where  his  law  students  graduated;  but  he 
always  marked  those  of  Brown,  because  of  this  special  training  in 
analysis.  Certainly  the  members  of  the  Judiciary  Committee  of  this 
House,  and  the  courts  and  bar  of  Georgia,  in  recognizing  the  cogent 
advocate  must  have  seen  how  his  finer  susceptibility  was  kept  in 
training  and  in  stamina  by  this  early  discipline. 

What  were  his  favorite  books  and  studies,  and  what  his  recrea 
tions,  what  his  habits  in  college  life,  it  may  be  curious  if  not  useful 
briefly  to  recall,  although  they  do  not  infallibly  indicate  the  subse 
quent  life.  How  few  of  the  ambitions  of  college  days  are  realized, 
how  few  of  their  cherished  designs  are  carried  out!  How  frail  in 
after  years  seem  those  sustaining  illusions  and  enrapturing  enthu 
siasms  which  spring  from  the  hard  rocks  of  study,  all  pure,  crystal 
line,  and  iridescent!  It  was  the  verdict  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE'S 
college  mates  that  although  he  was  reserved  and  made  but  few  ac 
quaintances  and  had  but  few  companions  and  confidants,  he  was  ever 
courteous  and  kind,  chivalric,  and  true  to  his  convictions.  This  re 
serve  seemed  to  some  to  have  an  air  of  hauteur,  but  we  who  knew 
him  understood  him  better.  Perhaps  it  came  from  a  certain  isolation 
in  the  college  growing  out  of  sectional  feeling,  which  even  then  had 
permeated  our  institutions  of  learning. 

Whatever  he  did,  he  did  well.  His  dilatoriness  and  laxity  of  effort 
at  times  seemed  to  be  filled  up  by  an  excellence  when  he  was  aroused 
which  must  have  been  the  fruit  of  abstraction  and  meditation.  Though 
he  may  not  have  stood  as  high  as  some  others  in  his  class,  sometimes 
failing  outright,  yet  what  he  did  was  perfected,  like  a  cameo  cut  t>y 
a  practiced  hand,  with  an  exquisite  sensibility  to  the  beautiful.  He 
was  regarded,  in  spite  of  certain  shortcomings,  as  a  brilliant  scholar; 
and  especially  brilliant  in  the  art  of  rhetoric.  Those  who  have  heard 


28  ADDRESS    OF    MR.    COX   ON   THE 

him  here  will  not  be  surprised  that  his  fancy,  his  susceptibility,  his 
southern  ardor,  chastened  and  curbed  by  discipline,  gave  him  facile 
grace  and  elevated  genius  in  oratory.  His  junior  speech  in  1848 
was  on  the  "Superstitions  of  the  Highlands."  One  of  the  professors 
remarked  of  it  that  never,  in  essay  or  speech,  had  he  listened  to  such 
a  warm  and  glowing  tribute  as  that  paid  to  Robert  Burns  and  his 
religion  of  humanity. 

He  was  very  happy  with  his  pen,  writing  with  fluency  and  fervor, 
but  he  was  most  felicitous  in  oratory.  No  one  doubted  his  power. 
In  his  speaking  he  had  that  dash,  that  elan  which  is  characteristic  of 
the  gifted  Southerner.  There  was  in  his  voice  an  indefinable  mag 
netism  over  an  audience  that  held  them  as  in  a  spell,  as  he  "graced 
the  noble  fervor  of  the  hour."  He  had  the  natural  endowment  of 
the  orator  who  is  born,  not  made.  No  one  in  his  class  so  fascinated 
and  thrilled.  This  was  doubtless  the  secret  and  select  compensation 
he  chose,  for  any  indifference  to  other  branches  of  culture.  I  have 
wondered  that  he  did  not  more  frequently  display  this  rare  gift  in 
this  House.  Perhaps  in  his  modest  regard  of  himself  he  underesti 
mated  its  charm.  He  took  no  pains  to  excel  in  class-room  work, 
and  graduated  with  moderate  rank;  but  all  agreed  that  he  was  no 
idler.  He  was  a  diligent  reader,  especially  of  history  and  historical 
fiction.  All  agreed  that  his  was  a  mind  of  unusual  brilliance,  but 
few  then  anticipated  that  he  would  erect  so  solid  and  superb  a  struct 
ure  on  the  hard  science  of  the  law. 

We  who  served  here  with  him  know  how  partial  he  was  to  his 
State,  his  section,  and  its  institutions  and  history.  Even  in  his  col 
lege  days  these  local  feelings  were  very  marked.  They  were  encour 
aged  by  his  habitual  reserve  in  a  New  England  State.  One  of  the 
freaks  which  grew  out  of  them  illustrated  the  intensity  of  his  local 
pride.  When  the  class  of  "moral  science"  lingered  three  weeks  in 
debate  over  the  slavery  question  he  persistently  refused  to  recite  dur 
ing  that  time,  because  he  would  not  repeat  Dr.  Wayland's  sentiments 


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as  expressed  in  the  text-book.  Luckily,  the  State  of  Roger  Williams 
and  the  university  which  was  founded  on  the  principles  of  toleration 
expressed  in  its  charter  passed  this  by  as  a  pardonable  element  of  the 
genius  led,  which  is  not  peculiar  to  any  section. 

That  which  first  gave  to  Dr.  Wayland  his  fame  was  not  his  pecu 
liar  methods  of  teaching;  it  was  his  tractate  on  "accountability."  If 
his  scholars  were  not  impressed  by  him  with  this  idea,  in  its  highest 
meaning,  it  was  from  an  inborn  obduracy  in  the  scholar.  He  taught 
us  that  it  was  the  gravitation  of  the  moral  universe;  that  intellectual 
beings  were  moral  agencies ;  and  that  they  must  have  this  virtue  or 
be  sundered  from  God's  universe.  Without  it  the  ruler  is  a  tyrant, 
the  judge  a  despot,  the  legislator  a  charlatan,  and  the  philosopher  an 
empiric.  It  is  the  strength  and  the  ornament  of  the  soul.  Without 
it  what  are  the  rudiments,  vestments,  and  culture  of  the  mind? 

What  his  constituents  and  his  State  loved  in  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE, 
was  this  sense  of  accountability  and  his  recognition  of  it  as  duty. 
Imbedded  in  his  nature,  which  never  knew  a  dishonest  thought,  and 
along  with  his  mental  habitudes,  was  the  moral  genius  implanted  by 
our  great  teacher,  whom  the  sons  of  Brown  University  ever  delight  to 
revere.  It  was  this  mental  power  and  moral  rectitude  which  JULIAN 
HARTRIDGE  bore  away  from  the  city  of  Providence  when  he  began 
the  active  labors  of  his  profession  and  filled  the  offices  with  which 
his  people  intrusted  him.  Practical  education  is  not  obtained  by 
book  or  by  recitation.  Few  who  leave  their  imprint  on  the  world 
are  thus  educated.  There  is  a  self-education  that  only  collision  with 
others  can  give.  Nay,  this  conflict  must  uneducate  often  to  re 
educate  for  practical  duty.  There  are  cloistered  virtues  which 
ponder  the  problems  of  this  and  the  other  life,  but  it  is  in  the  heat 
and  dust  of  active  life  where  the  guerdon  of  fame  is  won. 

Certain  it  is — 

Says  Lord  Bacon — 
that  whosoever  hath  his  mind  fraught  with  many  thoughts,  his  wits  and  under- 


30  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    COX   ON   THE 

standing  do  clarify  and  break  up  in  the  communicating  and  discoursing  with  one 
another;  he  tosses  his  thoughts  more  easily;  he  marshaleth  them  more  orderly ; 
he  seeth  how  they  look  when  they  are  turned  into  words ;  finally,  he  waxeth  wiser, 
and  that  more  by  an  hour's  discourse  than  by  a  day's  meditation. 

It  was  in  the  collisions  of  the  forum,  of  the  court,  and  the  legisla 
ture,  and  in  the  fierce  arena  of  debate,  when  one  mind  sharpeneth 
another  by  the  cunning  of  logical  fence,  that  this  commanding  power 
was  developed  and  increased  in  our  friend. 

Coming  thus  equipped  for  service  here,  may  we  not  say  that  he  has 
kept  with  studious  heed  his  faith  to  the  oath  he  took  to  our  organic 
law?  He  stood  here  for  all  the  muniments,  limitations,  rights,  and 
powers  of  the  Constitution  as  it  was  and  is.  He  knew  well  their 
meaning,  and  had  no  timidity  in  following  the  needle  which  pointed 
to  the  haven  designated  in  the  articles.  He  desired  to  restore  to  the 
nation  the  hallowed  and  healing  spirit  of  mutual  confidence  and  con 
ciliation.  When  he  came  hither  he  brought  no  mental  or  moral  reser 
vation.  Indeed,  he  was,  as  his  report  on  the  reopening  of  the  Presi 
dential  matter  in  this  Congress  showed,  conspicuously  conservative 
in  many  senses  of  the  peace  and  contentment  of  the  people. 

I  have  said  that  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  had  a  dainty  and  refined  sensibil 
ity.  It  was  not  limited  to  taste  in  art  or  in  literature.  He  was  fond 
of  flowers,  and  especially  of  those  rare  flowers  which  are  of  tropical 
origin.  The  Brazilian  orchids,  in  our  Botanic  Garden,  were  his  de 
light.  They  are  the  offspring  of  perpetual  summer.  They  cling  to 
trees  and  blocks  of  wood,  and  feed  not  upon  the  soil,  but  upon  the 
moist  and  heated  air.  Their  variety  and  brilliance  of  color  and  ex 
quisite  aroma  are  said  to  excel  all  the  productions  of  the  floral  king 
dom.  Their  habits  belong  to  the  atmosphere  and  not  to  the  earth, 
and  their  formation  is  a  portrayal  of  the  entire  scope  of  animated 
nature,  including  a  mimic  caricature  of  the  human  species.  There  is 
one  in  the  Botanic  Garden,  known  to  science  as  Cattleya  Warscewiezii, 
which  excels  all  of  its  numerous  tribes.  It  was  this  flower  which  my 


LIFE   AND    CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  31 

friend  was  accustomed  to  watch.  He  visited  the  garden  again  and 
again  to  observe  the  development  of  its  gorgeous  blossoms.  It  dec 
orated  his  desk  and  casket  on  the  occasion  of  his  obsequies.  I  thought 
he  would  love  to  have  his  favorite  in  life  near  to  him  in  death.  No 
poet  has  yet  sung  of  this  airy,  exquisite  flower.  The  rose  and  lily 
have  had  their  minstrels,  but  no  muse  has  yet  attempted  to  express  the 
delicate  loveliness  of  this  paragon  of  beauty,  whose  hue  outblanches 
the  lily  and  outblushes  the  rose.  If  fancy  were  allowed  some  license, 
something  in  our  friend's  character  and  culture  might  be  found  sym 
bolized  in  this  flower.  Its  variety;  its  luxuriance;  its  honeyed  wealth, 
which,  from  its  constitution,  no  insect  can  touch  without  death;  its 
isolated  growth  amid  lofty  tropical  trees,  to  which  it  clings  like  a 
bird  of  many-colored  plumage;  its  unsullied  purity  amidst  the  sur 
roundings  of  fen  and  marsh,  are  emblems  of  his  rare  excellence,  his 
exuberant  imagination,  his  sweetness  of  disposition,  his  superiority  to 
the  little  annoyances  of  daily  life  and  to  the  temptations  which  beset 
us  in  pursuing  the  duties  and  ambitions  of  our  political  life.  His  very 
reserve  and  isolation,  his  "high-built  genius" — above. the  groveling 
matters  of  earth — give,  like  his  favorite  flower,  a  fragrance  to  his 
memory  which  embalms  it  forever  in  the  heart. 

The  community  where  he  lived  was  paralyzed  by  the  suddenness 
of  their  calamity.  They  could  scarcely  realize  that  the  music  of  his 
voice,  which  melted  them  with  pathos  or  convinced  them  with  reason, 
was  hushed  forever.  They  had  expected  that  their  favorite  would 
have  been  preferred  to  other  honors  than  those  which  belong  to 
Georgia  here.  Little  did  they  expect  that  their  beloved  Representa 
tive  would  end  his  existence  before  that  service  was  ended.  Little 
did  they  expect  that  only  his  inanimate  form  would  return  to  them. 
There  was  some  solace  for  their  loss  in  the  honors  which  this  House 
and  the  country  paid  their  Representative;  but  it  was  indeed  a  somber 
day  for  the  city  of  Savannah  when  the  body  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE 
was  borne  to  them. 


32  ADDRESS    OV   MR.    FRYE   ON   THE 

In  the  State  of  Georgia  few  men  since  the  day  of  her  great  states 
man,  William  H.  Crawford,  have  been  so  distinguished  and  beloved. 
All  classes  of  all  races  and  all  professions — soldier,  civilian,  and  citi 
zen — united  in  swelling  the  chorus  of  praise  and  contributing  their 
sorrowing  sympathy.  Even  as  the  cortege  passed  through  the  city 
bearing  him  to  his  last  resting-place,  the  mosses  which  drape  the  oaks 
of  the  forest  added  their  funereal  sadness  to  the  scene. 

That  gentle  spirit  has  departed  from  us.  While  thinking  of  him 
sterner  eyes  than  mine  will  well  with  tears  over  his  departure.  The 
college  boy,  the  legislator,  and  the  friend,  these  are  my  bereavement; 
others  may  miss  a  life-long  friend,  a  trusted  counselor,  a  kind  father, 
and  loving  husband,  and  Georgia  will  miss  one  of  her  leading  lawyers 
and  statesmen.  All  the  meshes  which  have  been  woven  around  his 
daily  life  to  bind  him  earthward  are  sundered,  but  only  sundered  to 
be  rewoven,  we  hope,  in  the  better  country,  where  "  the  silver  cord  is 
never  loosed,  nor  the  golden  bowl  ever  broken." 


ADDRESS  OF  yVLR.   J^RYE,   OF 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  I  intended  and  ought  to  have  made  a  fitting  prep 
aration  for  speaking  to  the  character  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  but  an 
enforced  absence  in  the  city  of  New  York  on  an  investigating  com 
mittee  has  absolutely  prevented.  I  regret  this,  sir,  exceedingly,  and 
yet  I  do  not  feel  willing  to  allow  the  occasion  to  pass  in  utter  silence, 
for  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  and  I  were  warm  personal  friends,  although  all 
the  circumstances  of  our  lives  would  seem  to  have  been  antagonistic 
to  any  such  friendship.  He  represented  a  constituency  living  down 
in  one  of  the  Gulf  States  and  I  one  living  in  the  extreme  North;  he 
was  formerly  a  slave-owner  and  I  was  educated  to  believe  slavery  to 
be  a  crime  against  man  and  an  offense  against  God;  he  sympathized 
with  rebellion,  I  with  its  foes;  he  was  a  Democrat,  I  a  Republican. 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER  OF  JULIAN   HARTRIDGE.  33 

And  yet  I  have  in  my  life  learned  to  love  few  men  better  than 
I  did  him. 

It  was  only  an  accident  that  revealed  the  beauty  of  JULIAN  HART- 
RIDGE'S  character  to  me.  Oh,  how  many  flowers  of  friendship  fail  to 
blossom  in  this  world  simply  because  men  do  not  know  each  other; 
and  how  much  our  nation  has  suffered  from  this  same  strangeness ! 
Why,  sir,  I  am  convinced,  and  have  always  been,  that  rebellion  itself 
was  the  child  of  this  same  strangeness.  If  the  North  had  known 
the  South  and  the  South  had  known  the  North  before  the  war  as 
they  knew  each  other  at  its  close,  there  would  have  been  no  war. 
Why,  sir,  being  brought  together  and  held  together  for  four  long 
years,  even  in  a  terrible,  bloody  conflict,  only  made  us  better  friends 
than  we  ever  were  before  and  revealed  to  each  other  a  respect  and  a 
title  to  respect  which  we  never  had  dreamed  of. 

And  in  this  House  is  it  not  precisely  the  same?  Here  we  come 
from  different  and  remote  sections  of  the  country;  we  come  with 
prejudices  of  section  and  of  party  upon  us;  we  remain  together  for 
a  session  or  two;  we  separate,  and  those  same  prejudices  still  cling 
to  us.  And  why  ?  Because  we  have  had  no  opportunity  to  know 
each  other.  In  this  House  there  is  always  "the  other  side";  outside 
this  House  our  constituents  demand  every  single  moment  of  our 
time;  so  that  only  now  and  then  is  a  man  of  the  one  side  revealed 
to  the  man  on  the  other. 

A  notable  instance  occurs  to  me  at  this  very  moment.  There  is  a 
gentleman  from  Alabama  who  has  served  with  me  in  this  House  four 
or  six  years,  and  until  recently  I  never  knew  hirn.  I  knew  he  had 
been  a  major-general  in  the  Confederate  army.  He  had  his  preju 
dices,  and  I  undoubtedly  had  mine.  Yet  the  accident  of  sending  me 
to  the  city  of  New  York  with  him  on  a  committee  and  putting  us 
side  by  side,  bringing  us  in  close  contact  for  two  weeks,  only  revealed 
the  gentleman  to  me,  and  brought  into  life,  on  my  part  at  least,  a 
friendship  for  him  which  I  never  shall  forget. 


34  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    FRYE   ON   THE 

So,  sir,  accident  disclosed  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  and  his  character  to 
me.  Had  it  not  been  for  accident  he  and  I  would  have  been  parted 
by  death  each  to  the  other  comparatively  unknown;  if  we  had  preju 
dices  they  would  have  remained  to  the  end.  It  was  the  accident  of 
our  serving  on  the  same  committee  that  brought  us  together.  He 
was  placed  upon  the  Judiciary  Committee,  of  which  I  was  a  member, 
and  prejudice  disappeared,  while  in  its  place  friendship  sprang  into 
life. 

During  the  long  session  in  the  Forty-fifth  Congress  matters  of 
great  importance,  questions  involving  legal  propositions  that  were 
abstruse  and  difficult  to  understand,  were  constantly  before  that 
committee;  and  each  man  there  was  compelled  to  exhibit  what 
powers  there  were  in  him.  My  impression  is  that  Mr.  HARTRIDGE 
made  but  one  or  two  speeches  in  the  House  upon  this  floor  during 
the  time  he  was  here.  I  know  that  they  attracted  general  attention; 
but  I  am  satisfied  from  my  knowledge  of  him  that  it  was  his  modesty 
that  prevented  him  from  taking  the  position  and  holding  it  in  this 
House  to  which  his  pre-eminent  ability  entitled  him;  a  modesty 
which  would  not  allow  him  to  stand  here  by  the  hour  and  demand 
the  Speaker's  eye  and  the  Speaker's  ear;  a  modesty  which  would  not 
permit  him  to  put  his  name  upon  a  list  upon  your  table;  a  modesty 
which  would  not  allow  him  to  ask  time  from  the  gentleman  who  had 
control  of  the  floor.  I  am  satisfied  that  it  seemed  to  him  to  be  an 
assumption.  But  when  we  were  in  the  committee-room,  where,  as  I 
have  said,  every  man  was  compelled  to  exhibit  himself,  then  JULIAN 
HARTRIDGE  came  at  once  where  he  belonged — into  the  fore  rank. 
We  had  not  met  together  for  three  months  before  I  was  entirely  sat 
isfied  that  he  was  a  lawyer  of  pre-eminent  ability;  not  a  special 
pleader,  not  a  technical  lawyer,  but  a  lawyer  in  the  broadest  sense 
in  which  the  word  may  be  used.  He  had  convictions,  and  never 
feared  there  to  enforce  them;  he  had  opinions,  and  was  ever  ready 
to  maintain  them. 


LIFE    AND    CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTR1DGE.  35 

In  the  expression  of  his  opinions  he  was '  graceful,  persuasive, 
logical,  kindly  always.  His  mind  was  clear  and  comprehensive, 
and  his  apprehensions  were  remarkably  quick.  He  commanded 
the  respect  of  his  colleagues  on  that  committee.  He  was  not  a 
partisan  there,  he  was  not  a  Democrat  there ;  he  was  a  lawyer  test 
ing  and  trying  legal  propositions,  and  I  can  say  that  I  never  knew 
his  judgment  there  to  be  blinded  by  his  section  or  by  his  party.  In 
his  bearing  he  was  dignified,  in  his  manner  always  courteous.  He 
was  exceedingly  slow  to  give  offense,  and  equally  slow  to  feel  that 
any  offense  whatever  was  intended  him.  I,  sir,  came  from  that  com 
mittee  with  the  judgment,  and  I  believe  my  colleagues  upon  it  will 
concur  with  me,  using  the  words  with  their  full  and  complete  mean 
ing,  that  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  a  good  lawyer.  But  one  other 
thing,  in  my  judgment,  can  be  added  to  that  to  make  up  the  verdict 
that  he  was  a  man  of  perfect  character  so  far  as  humanity  and  per 
fection  can  exist  together;  and  I  feel  that  I  can  justly  add  that 
word.  I  met  him,  as  I  have  said,  daily;  I  saw  him  continually;  I 
associated  with  him  more  than,  perhaps,  with  any  other  gentleman 
on  the  other  side  of  this  House,  and  I  never  knew  him  to  utter  one 
word,  I  never  knew  him  to  do  an  act,  I  never  knew  him  to  give 
expression  to  a  thought,  that  did  not  indicate  to  me  that  he  was  a 
good  man  as  well. 

Have  I  not  said  it  all?  A  good  lawyer  and  a  good  man;  I  ask 
that  nothing  more,  when  I  am  dead,  shall  be  said  of  me,  and  I  pray 
that  that  may  be  said  truthfully. 

That  he  was  a  tender  father,  a  gentle  and  loving  husband,  a  noble, 
generous  neighbor  and  friend,  I  cannot  doubt. 

Why  God  should  have  taken  him  right  in  the  prime  of  his  beauti 
ful  life,  when  the  brilliant  promises,  of  which  the  gentleman  from 
New  York  [Mr.  Cox]  has  spoken,  of  his  early  manhood  were  day 
by  day  and  hour  by  hour  being  redeemed;  when  his  country,  his 
State,  his  party,  his  friends,  his  wife,  and  his  children  needed  him 


ADDRESS   OF    MR.    HARRISON   ON   THE 


more  than  they  ever  did  before — oh,  why  God  should  have  taken 
him  then  is  to  me  and  to  us  a  mystery.  Its  solution  can  and  shall 
only  come  in  the  great  hereafter. 

May  Heaven  grant  that  the  admonitions  and  warnings  of  these 
deaths,  which  have  come  to  this  House  so  frequently  and  so  sud 
denly,  teach  us  that  we  too  should  prepare  to  meet  our  God. 


ADDRESS  OP  yVlR.  J^ARRISON,  OF  JLLINOIS. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  Of  all  the  kindly  epigrams  which  have  come  down 
to  us  from  the  past,  no  other  is  so  replete  with  piety  as  the  old  pagan 
maxim,  "De  mortuis  nil  nisi  bonum"  When  the  icy  fingers  of  death 
have  seized  upon  the  strong  man;  when  the  arm  once  quick  to 
ward  off  and  the  hand  powerful  to  resent  an  injury  have  been  fettered 
by  the  heavy  weight  of  inurning  clay;  when  the  tongue  caustic  to 
retort  an  insult  and  ready  to  refute  a  calumny  has  been  paralyzed  by 
the  stroke  of  ruthless  Death,  then  nearly  all  men  feel  that  the  living 
should  tread  lightly  about  the  tomb,  that  the  voice  should  be  hushed 
in  the  presence  of  the  silent  one,  and  that  no  ill  thing  should  be 
spoken  of  him. 

Why,  sir,  this  almost  universal  sentiment,  universal  at  least  among 
all  men  elevated  above  the  savage  ?  Is  it  not  because  there  is  in  us 
all  a  vague,  undefined,  but  ineradicable  feeling — a  feeling  born  of 
heart-yearnings,  or  of  superstition,  or  of  indwelling  immortal  soul — 
that  there  is  an  immortality  in  us,  and  that  the  spirit  of  the  dead  yet 
lingers  about  its  old  tenement  and  near  to  the  dear  ones  of  life,  and 
that  it  would  be  pained  by  the  utterance  of  a  harsh  word  to  which  it 
is  powerless  to  reply  ? 

There  is,  perhaps,  sir,  no  earthly  thing  so  terrible  to  a  brave,  good 
man  as  that  a  calumny  touching  his  good  name  should  live  when  he 
himself  shall  be  gone,  and  shall  have  left  no  one  able  or  willing  to 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF  JULIAN   HARTRIDGE.  37 

defend  his  honor.  A  stoic  may  despise  a  slander  in  life;  only  a  cynic 
can  calmly  sleep  and  know  that  a  calumny  is  being  graven  upon  his 
tomb. 

Again,  sir,  although  we  all  know  we  must  die,  yet  no  living  being 
can  realize  his  own  death;  we  are  wholly  unable  to  comprehend, 
even  in  the  presence  of  that  most  solemn  memento  mori,  death  itself, 
that  we,  too,  shall — 

Die,  and  go  we  know  not  where ; 

To  lie  in  cold  obstruction,  and  to  rot ; 

This  sensible  warm  motion  to  become 

A  kneaded  clod — 

that  "the  places  which  know  us  now  shall  know  us  no  more";  that 
our  moving,  breathing  bodies,  so  sensible  to  pain  and  quick  to  drink 
in  pleasure,  shall  become  an  intangible  nothing.  We  therefore  hug 
to  our  hearts  the  hope  that  there  is  in  us  a  living  immortal  part;  and 
we  cannot  divest  ourselves  of  the  idea  that  this  living  something  will 
hover  around  the  places  we  love  on  earth.  This  yearning  as  to  our 
selves  makes  us  prone  to  feel,  if  not  believe,  that  the  spirit  of  our 
loved  dead  is  floating  about  us.  So  that  in  obeying  the  old  maxim 
by  speaking  of  the  dead  only  good,  we  are  but  paying  the  debt  we 
shall  owe  to  those  who  shall  follow  us. 

Sir,  how  easy  the  simple  task,  when  we  know  of  the  dead  naught 
but  good !  How  grateful  the  duty,  when  we  have  known  our  dead, 
and  yet  have  learned  nothing  of  him  except  that  which  is  good!  In 
arising  in  my  seat  to-day,  Mr.  Speaker,  and  joining  in  the  solemn 
pageant  moving  in  honor  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  I  simply  perform 
that  grateful  duty,  for  I  did  know  him,  and  yet  I  could  not,  even  if 
I  would,  recall  of  him  a  single  thing  of  which  I  could  say  a  word  not 
good.  Whatever  there  was  in  him  which  in  life  I  blamed  was  really 
an  evidence  of  virtue. 

What  I  shall  say  of  him,  sir,  shall  be  said  as  due  to  one  I  sincerely 
loved,  as  a  tribute  to  one  who  bound  me  to  him  by  "bands  of  iron 


38  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  HARRISON  ON  THE 

and  hooks  of  steel."  I  wish  to  drop  upon  his  bier  a  simple  flower, 
fragrant  with  affection.  I  would  pluck  from  my  memory  and  lay 
upon  his  breast  a  green  leaf,  redolent  of  the  love  which  he  awakened 
in  my  bosom.  I  shall  say  nothing  biographical  of  our  friend;  that 
has  been  better  done  by  others.  At  the  expense  of  using  the  egotist 
ical  "  I "  oftener  than  could  be  wished,  I  shall  endeavor  to  paint  to 
you  the  manner  of  man  he  appeared  to  me  to  be,  and  to  tell  you  why 
I  loved  him,  confining  myself  entirely  to  his  personal  characteristics 
as  exhibited  here  in  our  midst. 

Three  years  ago,  sir,  last  December  I  met  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  for 
the  first  time.  We  were  utter  strangers  to  each  other,  and  probably 
would  never  have  become  more  than  passing  acquaintances  if  we  had 
not  in  the  last  Congress  drawn  seats  side  by  side.  For  he  was  a  man 
exceedingly  reserved  in  manner — so  much  so  that  to  a  casual  ac 
quaintance  he  seemed  coldly  distant  and  studiously  retiring.  He 
had  that  courtliness  of  bearing  which  erects  about  a  man  a  barrier 
over  which  a  stranger  steps  only  on  exact  and  palpable  invitation. 
Our  juxtaposition  during  the  Forty-fourth  Congress  drew  us  into 
close  communion.  We  discussed  together  the  more  important 
questions  which  came  before  the  House.  In  a  short  time  I  found 
that  he  possessed  a  mind  of  very  high  order  and  a  cultivation  of 
rare  finish. 

His  perceptions  were  remarkably  quick,  clear,  and  clean.  He 
caught  at  once  the  underlying  foundations  of  every  subject  debated; 
and  his  mind,  grown  severely  logical  from  his  long  and  scientific  study 
of  his  profession,  quickly  stripped  a  question  of  the  tangled  threads 
thrown  around  it  by  others.  I  soon  considered  it  a  reason  for  self- 
gratulation  if  my  already-formed  opinions  and  his  were  in  accord. 
His  name  followed  mine  immediately  on  the  roll-call.  If  he  voted 
with  me  I  felt  doubly  assured  I  had  made  no  mistake. 

As  a  constitutional  lawyer  he  had  no  superior  in  this  or  in  the  pre 
ceding  House.  His  mind  was  ever  on  the  alert  when  an  appeal  was 


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made  to  that  chart  of  our  liberties.  He  was  a  strict  constructionist, 
yet  believed  that  our  Magna  Charta  was  sufficiently  elastic  to  guide 
a  people  whose  bounds  were  to  be  co-extensive  with  that  of  a  conti 
nent.  He  did  not  hold  it  to  be  a  Procrustean  bed,  to  fit  which  a  vast 
nation  should  be  lopped  off  at  either  end. 

Whenever  a  constitutional  or  legal  question  happened  to  be  under 
discussion  he  paid  the  closest  attention  to  every  word  said,  and  al 
lowed  no  argument  to  pass  unheeded.  On  such  occasions  he  has 
often  turned  to  me  to  expose  the  error  of  some  citation  of  authority 
or  to  controvert  some  deduction  improperly  drawn,  and  always  so 
clearly  and  tersely  as  to  win  immediate  conviction.  At  such  times, 
when  it  seemed  the  House  was  going  wrong,  I  have  urged  him  to 
get  up  and  give  his  views,  and  I  have  known  him  on  several  occa 
sions  to  take  the  floor  to  do  so,  and  then  to  sit  down  again  before 
gaining  recognition,  as  if  he  dreaded  to  push  himself  conspicuously 
forward.  This  happened  so  frequently  that  I  blamed  him  for  his 
reticence  as  an  injustice  both  to  himself  and  to  the  House. 

This  reticence  was  not  the  offspring  of  any  uncertainty  as  to  the 
correctness  of  his  views,  but  was  from  a  sort  of  aversion  to  appear 
ing  to  be  anxious  to  make  himself  heard.  I  recall  two  or  three  occa 
sions,  when,  after  sending  to  the  Library  for  authorities,  he  handed 
them  to  me,  with  the  suggestion  that  I  should  get  up  and  give  them 
to  the  House.  This  was  not  from  timidity  or  fear  of  failure,  for  he 
knew  his  thoughts  would  never  find  his  tongue  disobedient  to  their 
call.  He  had  great  command  of  language.  Words  apt,  choice,  and 
beautiful  flowed  from  his  lips  as  in  a  voluntary  stream.  What  he 
seemed  to  want  was  that  the  House  should  be  right.  He  was  not 
ambitious  of  being  the  one  to  set  it  so.  A  rare  quality,  sir,  in  an 
American  Congressman. 

JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  a  poet  by  nature;  and  I  suspect,  though 
he  never  positively  confessed  it  to  me,  had  often  dipped  his  pen  in 
the  Catalian  fountain.  I  had  a  habit  of  cutting  from  newspapers  any 


4°  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    HARRISON   ON   THE 

fugitive  verses  which  struck  my  fancy.  These  I  would  sometimes 
read  to  him,  and  he  had  to  be  very  deeply  absorbed  in  business  not 
to  readily  lend  me  his  ear.  I  remember  reading  to  him  one  day  from 
a  newspaper  clipping  Palmer's  exquisite  Ode  to  Light.  He  had  never 
seen  it  before.  After  reading  it  he  called  me  back  to  the  cloak-room 
and  then  read  it  several  times  aloud.  His  dark  eye  filled  to  suffusion, 
showing  how  the  beautiful  stanzas  had  touched  the  chords  of  his 
heart  and  set  them  to  singing  in  rythmic  harmony. 

So  poetic  were  his  tastes  that  his  speeches  were  somewhat  weakened 
by  a  disposition  to  clothe  the  coldest  logic  in  flowing  if  not  in  meas 
ured  periods.  His  mastery  of  language  being  great,  his  ready  tongue 
was  apt  to  play  lackey  to  his  tuneful  ear,  and  to  pour  out  mellow 
sentences  as  pleasing  in  sound  as  they  were  solid  in  sense.  His  gest 
ures,  too,  were  graceful  and  in  perfect  harmony  with  the  euphony  of 
his  tones.  On  this  account  a  stranger  was  apt  to  suspect  his  speeches 
were  prepared  in  advance  and  committed  to  memory;  this,  even  when 
they  were  entirely  impromptu. 

But,  after  all,  Mr.  Speaker,  it  was  neither  the  mind,  nor  the  man 
ner,  nor  the  cultivation  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  which  drew  one's  love 
to  him.  It  was  the  man's  heart,  soft  and  gentle  as  a  woman's,  giving 
and  craving  love,  as  the  heart  of  a  pure  and  chaste  woman  gives  and 
craves  it.  His  was  one  of  those  rare  natures  which  reconciles  us  to 
the  truthfulness  of  David's  description  of  Jonathan's  love,  "  a  love 
passing  the  love  of  women."  Pythias  might  readily  have  loved  such 
a  Damon ;  and  Damon  might  have  sought  to  die  for  such  a  Pythias. 
One  meets  but  few  such  in  a  life-time,  and  finds  them  but  rarely 
emerging  from  the  secluded  recesses  of  private  life. 

Loving  and  tender  in  his  feelings,  JULIAN'S  expressions  of  affection 
were  exceedingly  caressing.  Speaking  to  him  one  day  after  I  had 
known  him  some  months,  I  addressed  him  as  HARTRIDGE  or  Mr. 
HARTRIDGE.  With  a  tone  as  endearing  as  that  with  which  a  mother 
utters  the  word  "  darling,"  he  called  me  by  my  given  name  and  said : 


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"We  have  now  known  each  other  a  good  while;  we  are  friends;  I 
really  hope  we  love  each  other.  Promise  me  hereafter  always  to  call 
me  JULIAN." 

Mr.  Speaker,  this  was  a  little  thing;  a  very  little  thing;  but  it  was 
one  of  those  little  things  which  are  a  revelation.  Remember,  sir,  the 
world  is  made  up  of  untold  little  things.  It  is  an  aggregation  of 
atomies  which  looks  down  from  Mount  Blanc's  old  giant  dome.  It 
was  this  and  many  other  similar  little  things  which  revealed  to  me 
JULIAN  HARTRIDGE'S  great  heart.  Loving  in  his  nature,  his  heart 
yearned  for  love.  Rendering  love,  his  soul  thirsted  for  it  as  the  earth 
thirsts  for  the  evening's  dew. 

I  said  that  heart  was  as  soft  and  gentle  as  a  woman's.  Yet,  sir,  his 
was  no  woman's  nature.  Clear  in  his  conceptions,  he  was  steadfast 
in  his  opinions.  Clairvoyant,  he  despised  a  hypocrite  and  hated  a 
sham.  Brave,  he  could  have  looked  into  a  cannon's  mouth,  and  his 
eye  would  not  have  quailed  as  the  torch  sought  the  priming;  yet  a 
cry  of  distress  brought  tears  to  his  eyes.  Chivalrous,  he  could  have 
measured  swords  with  an  enemy  without  a  tremor,  and  would  have 
followed  honor's  or  duty's  call  into  the  deadly  breach;  yet  a  friend's 
distress  melted  him,  and  a  woman's  wail  unmanned  him. 

Thus,  sir,  appeared  to  me  the  man  whose  loss  we  lament  to-day. 
His  memory  will  live  in  our  hearts  as  bright  and  fresh  as  the  mantle 
of  ever-living  green  with  which  the  oak  robes  itself,  beneath  whose 
spreading  boughs  he  calmly  sleeps.  Such,  sir,  was  the  man  whom  a 
loving  wife  and  tender  children  mourn  in  their  far-off  sunny  home. 
As  the  mother  of  the  Gracchi  pointed  to  her  children  as  her  jewels, 
so  may  these  bereaved  ones  point  to  the  husband's  and  the  father's 
deeds  and  fame  as  their  most  unperishable  gems. 

Cut  off  in  his  manhood's  prime;  his  sun  hardly  at  its  meridian,  his 
country,  his  friends,  and  his  family  have  lost  the  ripeness  of  his  years. 
What  fruits  those  riper  years  would  have  borne  we  can  only  judge 
by  those  already  gathered.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  filled  many  positions 


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42  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    DAVIDSON   ON   THE 

of  honor,  and  filled  them  all  with  glory  to  himself  and  for  his  country's 
good. 

The  deeds  he  has  done  are  left  behind, 

The  enduring  produce  of  immortal  mind ; 

Fruits  of  a  genial  morn,  and  glorious  noon : 

A  deathless  part  of  him  who  died  too  soon. 


ADDRESS  OF  MR.  PAYIDSON,  OF  J^LORIDA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  I  appreciate  the  privilege,  mournful  though  it  be, 
which  has  been  granted  to  me  on  this  occasion  to  drop  a  flower  on 
the  grave,  to  pay  a  humble  tribute  to  the  loved  memory  of  Georgia's 
departed  son.  Well  do  I  remember  the  shock  which  I  experienced 
when  on  the  morning  of  the  8th  day  of  last  month  it  was  announced 
to  me,  "  HARTRIDGE  is  dead."  Sad  announcement  indeed  it  was,  for 
it  told  that  a  noble  and  generous  heart  had  ceased  to  beat  and  that 
an  honest  and  upright  life  had  ended.  For  years,  Mr.  Speaker,  I  had 
known  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  by  reputation,  but  it  was  not  until  the 
present  Congress  had  convened  in  extra  session  that  it  was  my  good 
fortune  to  become  personally  acquainted  with  him.  That  acquaint 
ance  was  growing  in  warmth  and  intimacy  when  the  shaft  of  the 
cruel  archer  struck  him  and  the  links  of  friendship  which  were  being 
wrought  were  rudely  broken.  Sir,  I  will  attempt  no  lengthy  pane 
gyric,  will  indulge  in  no  excessive  fulsome  praise  of  the  lamented 
dead,  but  will  content  myself  with  a  brief  sketch  of  his  life  and 
character. 

He  was  born  in  Savannah,  Georgia,  and  in  early  manhood  became 
a  member  of  the  legal  profession  of  that  city.  There  were  giants  in 
the  law  there  then  as  there  are  now.  Berrien,  Charlton,  Law,  Ward, 
and  other  distinguished  gentlemen,  whose  reputations  were  not  con 
fined  to  the  limits  of  their  own  State,  but  were  national  in  their 
character,  were  at  that  time  practitioners  at  that  bar.  Gifted  by  the 


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43 


Master,  as  HARTRIDGE  was,  notwithstanding  the  great  array  of  talent 
with  which  he  had  to  cope,  by  his  sound  judgment  and  logic,  by  his 
stirring  eloquence  and  brilliant  oratory,  he  was  not  long  in  making 
for  himself  clients  and  a  name. 

A  position  having  been  gained,  he  rapidly  advanced  in  his  profes 
sion  and  in  the  confidence  of  his  fellow-citizens.  Soon  he  was  made 
solicitor-general  of  his  circuit,  then  elected  to  the  legislature  of  his 
State,  and  when  the  unhappy  struggle  began,  when  war's  alarum  was 
sounded,  he  was,  though  young  in  years,  enjoying  an  enviable  repu 
tation  as  an  advocate  and  a  jurist. 

Loving  the  sunny  land  which  gave  him  birth,  and  indorsing  those 
principles  which  the  people  of  his  section  advocated,  he  laid  aside 
the  robe  of  the  lawyer  and  donned  the  uniform  of  a  soldier.  He 
entered  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  animated  by  that  spirit 
which  was  conspicuously  displayed  at  that  eventful  period  of  our 
country's  history,  both  by  men  of  the  North  and  of  the  South — that 
spirit  which  is  so  beautifully  protrayed  by  the  poet  when  he  says: 

No  fearing,  no  doubting,  thy  soldier  shall  know, 

When  here  stands  his  country  and  yonder  her  foe.   j 

One  look  at  the  bright  sun,  one  prayer  to  the  sky,  //   Tr 

One  glance  at  our  banner,  which  floats  glorious  on  high ; 

Then  on,  as  the  young  lion  bounds  on  his  prey;  C^  \  ~1     T  I  i 

Let  the  sword  flash  on  high,  fling  the  scabbard  awayy^ 

Roll  on  like  the  thunderbolt  over  the  plain, 

We'll  come  back  in  glory  or  come  not  again. 

But,  Mr.  Speaker,  the  genius  of  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  as  a  lawyer  and 
his  judgment  and  wisdom  as  a  counselor  and  legislator  had  become 
so  well  known  to  his  fellow-citizens  that  they  would  not  permit  him 
to  remain  long  in  the  military  service.  About  one  year  after  he 
became  a  soldier,  he  was  called  by  his  constituents  from  the  tented 
field  to  occupy  a  seat  in  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 
of  that  body  he  continued  to  be  a  member  until  the  close  of  the  war. 


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ADDRESS   OF    MR.    DAVIDSON   ON   THE 


Resuming  the  practice  of  his  profession,  he  was  soon  in  the  enjoy 
ment  of  a  lucrative  business,  and  by  his  energy,  industry,  and  supe 
rior  ability  gained  for  himself  a  conspicuous  position  and  honorable 
distinction  as  a  lawyer.  In  1874  he  was  elected  to  the  Forty-fourth 
Congress,  and  so  well  and  faithfully  did  he  serve  his  constituents  and 
his  country  that  he  was  re-elected  to  the  Forty-fifth  Congress.  Here, 
in  the  city  of  Washington,  at  his  post  and  in  the  discharge  of  duty, 
he  was  called  to  that  bourne  from  whence  no  traveler  returns.  In 
the  vigor  of  his  manhood  he  has  been  stricken  down — has  gone  to 
his  long  home,  and  we  are  left  to  sadly  mourn  his  departure. 

By  the  death  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  this  House,  his  native  State, 
and  the  whole  country  have  sustained  a  great  loss.  The  grand 
demonstration  which  was  witnessed  on  the  occasion  of  his  funeral 
illustrated  the  fact  that  he  was  greatly  beloved  by  the  citizens  of 
Savannah;  and  as  evidence  of  his  worth  and  the  admiration  and 
esteem  which  his  brothers  of  the  bar  had  for  him,  I  will  quote  from 
the  preamble  and  resolutions  which  were  adopted  by  them  a  few 
days  after  his  death. 

They  say : 

His  character  was  free,  open,  and  generous.  His  nature  was  noble  and  loving. 
He  carried  his  heart  in  his  hand.  His  course  was  always  forward  and  manly,  and 
he  was  free  from  all  taint  of  hypocrisy.  To  younger  and  humbler  professional 
brothers  he  was  ever  kind  and  considerate,  and  his  hand  was  always  extended  to 
support,  aid,  and  direct  them.  He  has  left  in  the  hearts  of  survivors  a  void  that 
cannot  be  filled,  and  he  goes  to  his  grave  missed,  honored,  and  wept. 

Often,  Mr.  Speaker,  has  death  entered  this  Hall  during  the  present 
session  of  Congress.  The  solemn  question  suggests  itself  now,  who 
will  be  the  next?  It  is  written:  "Therefore  be  ye  also  ready,  for  in 
such  an  hour  as  ye  think  not,  the  Son  of  man  cometh." 


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ADDRESS    OF    ^R.    pQODE,    OF 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  I  esteem  it  a  privilege  on  this  sad  memorial  occa 
sion  to  unite  with  other  members  of  this  House  in  rendering  a  just 
tribute  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  our  departed  associate  and  friend. 
It  is  true  the  voice  of  eulogy  cannot  now  reach  the  dull,  cold  ear  of 
death,  or  bring  back  to  life  that  inanimate  form  which  was  so  recently 
borne  from  this  Hall,  after  solemn  and  impressive  ceremonies  which 
denoted  more  strongly  than  language  could  express  the  depth  and 
sincerity  of  a  nation's  grief.  But  in  all  ages  of  the  world  it  has  been 
held  to  be  not  only  a  pious  duty  but  a  mournful  pleasure  to  recount 
the  virtues  and  perpetuate  the  memory  of  the  great,  the  noble,  and 
the  good  who  have  been  removed  from  earth  by  the  relentless  hand 
of  death. 

If  a  stranger  from  some  foreign  land  had  chanced  to  be  present 
here  on  the  gth  day  of  January  last,  when  the  casket  containing  the 
lifeless  body  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  brought  into  this  Hall,  it 
would  not  have  been  necessary  to  explain  to  him  that  the  nation  had 
sustained  a  heavy  and  afflictive  bereavement.  The  presence  of  the 
President  and  his  Cabinet,  the  Senate  of  the  United  States,  the  mem 
bers  of  the  Supreme  Court,  the  sad  and  sorrowful  countenances  of 
the  members  of  this  House,  and  the  solemn  stillness  which  pervaded 
the  Hall  and  the  crowded  galleries,  would  have  sufficed  to  inform 
him,  before  the  Chaplain  of  the  House  had  commenced  the  impres 
sive  services  of  the  hour,  that  no  ordinary  man  had  been  stricken 
down  and  suddenly  cut  off  in  the  midst  of  a  useful  and  honorable 
career. 

And  if  he  had  gone  with  the  Congressional  escort  to  the  home  of 
the  deceased  in  the  beautiful  city  of  Savannah,  and  had  witnessed 
the  imposing  funeral  pageant  and  the  universal  outpouring  of  the 


46  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   GOODE   ON  THE 

people  to  do  honor  to  their  noble  and  distinguished  dead;  if  he  could 
have  seen  how  the  hearts  of  the  bravest  and  strongest  were  para 
lyzed  by  the  heaviness  and  suddenness  of  the  blow — how  an  entire 
community,  without  regard  to  age,  sex,  color,  or  condition,  was 
bowed  down  in  grief  and  sorrow  and  bitterness  of  woe;  if  he  could 
have  stood  at  the  grave,  bestrewn  as  it  was  with  beautiful  and  fra 
grant  flowers,  and  had  seen  how  many  in  that  vast  throng  were 
unable  to  repress  the  tears  which  welled  up  from  the  heart,  he  would 
have  felt  constrained  to  exclaim,  "Behold  how  they  loved  him!" 
What  higher  or  nobler  tribute  could  have  been  paid  to  the  dead 
than  was  implied  in  such  a  demonstration  from  the  people  who  had 
known  him  long  and  well?  It  was  far  more  significant  and  elo 
quent  than  words. 

He  had  been  born  and  reared  in  their  midst,  and  they  had  known 
him  from  his  earliest  childhood.  They  had  witnessed  the  commence 
ment  of  his  professional  career,  and  had  watched  with  admiration 
and  pleasure  his  onward  and  upward  course,  as  step  by  step  he 
climbed  the  steep  "where  fame's  proud  temple  shines  afar."  They 
had  seen  how  in  a  few  years,  by  his  commanding  abilities  and  per 
suasive  eloquence,  he  had  attained  enviable  prominence  at  a  bar 
whose  members  enjoyed  not  only  State  but  national  renown.  They 
had  elected  him,  while  yet  a  young  man,  to  the  responsible  office  of 
solicitor-general  of  the  circuit  in  which  he  practiced.  They  had 
witnessed  his  brilliant  forensic  triumphs  when,  in  vindication  of  truth 
and  innocence  and  justice,  he  had  wielded  alternately  the  ponderous 
battle-ax  of  a  Richard  or  the  keen  scimiter  of  a  Saladin.  They  had 
often  listened  to  his  powerful,  convincing  arguments,  had  been  led 
captive  by  his  beautiful  rhetoric,  had  been  melted  to  tears  by  his 
touching  pathos,  and  had  stood  on  tiptoe  to  catch  the  last  receding 
tones  of  his  musical  voice  as  they  died  away  in  the  court-room. 
Although  his  constitution  was  feeble  and  delicate,  they  had  seen  him 
when  the  war  commenced  relinquish  a  large  and  lucrative  practice, 


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sever  the  ties  that  bound  him  to  family  and  home,  and,  as  a  vol 
unteer  soldier  in  the  ranks  of  his  country's  defenders,  cheerfully 
encounter  the  hardships  of  the  march,  the  privations  of  the  camp, 
and  the  perils  of  the  field.  In  a  word,  Mr.  Speaker,  the  people  of 
Savannah  knew  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  as  we  could  not  know  him  here 
in  the  bustle  and  turmoil  of  Congressional  life.  They  not  only 
admired  and  were  justly  proud  of  his  high  intellectual  endowments 
and  his  brilliant  talents,  but  they  loved  him  for  the  modesty  of  his 
demeanor,  the  purity  of  his  character,  the  loftiness  of  his  purpose, 
the  nobility  of  his  nature,  the  sincerity  of  his  friendships,  and  his 
fidelity  to  the  sacred  relations  of  husband  and  father. 

My  personal  acquaintance  with  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  commenced  in 
February,  1862,  during  the  dark  days  of  the  civil  war,  when  he  came 
to  Richmond  as  a  Representative  from  the  State  of  Georgia  in  the 
Congress  of  the  Confederate  States.  As  a  member  of  that  body  he 
was  not  only  distinguished  for  his  great  powers  in  debate  and  his 
persuasive  oratory,  but  for  his  strict  attention  to  the  interests  of  his 
constituents  and  his  unswerving  fidelity  to  that  cause  which  he 
believed  to  be  the  cause  of  civil  liberty  and  constitutional  govern 
ment.  Although  he  was  called  upon  to  legislate  under  the  most 
trying  circumstances,  while  the  roar  of  artillery  could  be  constantly 
heard  as  he  sat  at  his  desk  in  the  hall  of  representatives  and  the 
flashing  of  the  guns  could  be  distinctly  seen  from  the  dome  of  the 
capitol,  his  heroic  spirit  never  faltered  for  a  moment,  but  he  con 
tinued  to  vote  every  man  and  every  dollar  required  by  the  adminis 
tration  for  the  prosecution  of  the  war  until  the  cause  of  the  Confed 
eracy  was  lost  and  its  torn  and  tattered  banners  were  surrendered  to 
overwhelming  numbers  at  Appomattox  Court  House. 

The  war  being  over,  he  addressed  himself  like  a  true  man  to  the 
work  of  restoration.  He  conceived  it  to  be  a  high  and  patriotic  duty 
to  extinguish  all  the  bitterness  and  hate  of  the  past  and  to  exert 
all  his  acknowledged  influence  in  re-establishing  fraternal  relations 


48  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    GOODE   ON   THE 

between  the  lately  dissevered  sections  of  the  Union.  As  a  member 
of  the  Forty-fourth  Congress,  and  also  of  the  Forty-fifth,  he  rendered 
valuable  and  conspicuous  service  in  the  consummation  of  that  object 
"so  devoutly  to  be  wished."  In  that  memorable  struggle  which  took 
place  in  the  House  during  the  stormy  days  immediately  preceding 
the  4th  of  March,  1877,  his  manly  voice  was  heard  above  the  din 
and  tumult  of  the  hour,  and  that  voice  was  for  peace.  He  did  not 
despair  of  the  Republic,  but  cherished  an  abiding  faith  that  consti 
tutional  liberty  would  still  live.  In  an  address  delivered  here  on  the 
morning  of  the  25th  of  January,  1877,  an  address  which  completely 
electrified  his  hearers  and  was  of  itself  sufficient  to  establish  his 
reputation  as  one  of  the  most  splendid  orators  of  the  age,  he  said: 

Constitutional  liberty  has  been  before  in  as  great  straits  as  now,  but  has  never 
been  destroyed  entirely.  From  the  day  when  it  was  wrested  in  an  unshapen, 
unformed  condition  from  an  English  tyrant  at  Runnymede  by  the  iron-mailed 
hands  of  English  barons  to  the  present  hour,  when  it  stands  invested  with  the 
full  stature  and  majesty  of  manhood,  through  all  the  vicissitudes  of  change  and 
time  and  blood  it  has  never  died.  Time  and  again  it  has  seemed  to  be  over 
thrown  in  the  tumults  of  temporary  revolution  or  destroyed  by  the  vacillating 
changes  of  the  popular  will.  Time  and  again  the  hand  of  some  Tudor  or  Stuart, 
or  the  power  of  some  star  chamber,  or  the  grasp  of  some  military  despotism,  has 
seemed  to  crush  it  into  dust.  But  each  time  the  hand  of  some  Hampden  or  the 
sacrifice  of  some  Warren  has  proved  to  the  world  that  it  still  existed  and  still 
claimed  its  followers  and  apostles.  Ay,  time  and  again  the  life  has  seemed  to 
depart  from  its  body,  and,  clothed  in  the  cerements  of  the  grave,  it  has  been  put 
away  out  of  sight  into  what  seemed  to  be  its  eternal  tomb.  But  its  disciples  had 
only  to  labor  and  to  wait,  and  each  time  some  hand  has  been  found  to  roll  away 
the  stone  of  the  sepulcher;  and  issuing  forth  in  all  its  pristine  vigor  and  beauty,  it 
has  again  shed  sunshine  and  safety  all  over  the  land. 

Sir,  I  stand  almost  beneath  the  coat  of  arms  of  my  native  State  engraved  upon 
the  ceiling  of  this  Hall.  There  is  the  arch  of  the  Constitution,  supported  by  the 
three  pillars,  upon  which,  respectively,  are  inscribed  the  words  "Wisdom," 
"Justice,"  and  "Moderation."  If  these  three  words  can  be  the  talismans  to 
control  our  action — wisdom  in  the  concert  of  measures,  justice  in  executing  them 
for  the  benefit  of  all  alike,  moderation  in  the  exercise  of  power — if  we  will  act 


LIFE   AND    CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTR1DGE.  49 

under  the  inspiration  of  those  words,  and  so  contain  and  so  control  ourselves,  we  will 
hand  down  and  perpetuate  for  posterity  the  great  principles  of  constitutional  liberty. 

He  labored  for  the  restoration  of  peace,  not  only  between  the  sec 
tions,  but  between  the  races  also.  As  a  citizen  of  Georgia  and  a  rep 
resentative  man  of  his  State  he  sought  to  cultivate  the  most  kindly 
relations  with  the  colored  people.  They  fully  appreciated  his  high 
character  and  his  patriotic  efforts  in  their  behalf.  As  an  evidence  of 
their  high  regard  and  esteem  for  him  as  a  citizen  and  a  Representative 
I  desire  to  place  upon  record  the  fact  that  upon  the  occasion  of  his 
funeral  in  the  city  of  Savannah  they  made  a  formal  request  to  be  per 
mitted  to  participate  in  the  ceremonies.  This  request  was  gratefully 
and  gracefully  acceded  to,  and  in  accordance  with  the  arrangements 
eight  volunteer  companies  of  colored  troops  joined  in  the  funeral  pro 
cession,  and  as  an  escort  of  honor  accompanied  the  remains  to  their  last 
resting-place.  Such  a  spontaneous  tribute  of  respect  was  honorable 
alike  to  all  concerned.  It  was  honorable  to  the  distinguished  dead, 
and  honorable  to  the  colored  population  of  Savannah. 

But,  Mr.  Speaker,  I  must  forbear.  Our  noble,  genial,  and  gallant 
friend  has  gone  from  among  us  forever.  The  seat  which  he  once 
graced  and  adorned  is  now  vacant.  No  more  will  we  receive  the 
friendly,  cordial  grasp  of  his  hand.  No  more  will  we  look  upon  those 
attractive  features  or  listen  to  the  musical  tones  of  that  voice  which 
never  failed  to  rivet  attention  here.  While  we  unite  to-day  with  the 
State  of  Georgia  in  rendering  homage  to  the  name  of  her  noble  and 
illustrious  son,  while  we  determine  to  emulate  his  virtues  and  keep  his 
memory  green  in  our  hearts,  let  us  indulge  the  hope  that — 

We  may  fir.d  in  death 
A  hiding-place  with  God 

Secure  from  woe  and  sin.  till  called 
To  share  his  blest  abode. 

Cheered  by  this  hope,  we  wait 
Through  toil  and  care  and  grief 

Till  our  appointed  course  is  run, 
And  death  shall  bring  relief. 


50  ADDRESS    OF    MR.    CUTLER    ON    THE 


ADDRESS    OF    yVlR.    ptTTLER,    OF    JS'EW    ^ERSEY. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  not  a  stranger  to  me  when 
we  entered  the  Forty-fourth  Congress  together.  True,  we  had  never 
met  prior  to  the  convention  of  that  Congress,  but  warm  personal 
friends  of  the  deceased — then  residents  of  my  district,  formerly  of 
his — while  equally  warm  personal  friends  of  mine — former  constitu 
ents  of  mine,  then  of  his — had  made  me  acquainted  with  his  manly 
virtues,  social  life,  sterling  integrity,  and  eminent  abilities,  so  that  on 
that  day  we  met  not  as  strangers,  but  as  acquaintances,  and  I  am 
proud  to  say  that  such  acquaintance  ripened  into  a  warm  and  gen 
erous  friendship,  and  that  friendship  was  an  earnest  to  me  that  the 
estimate  of  our  mutual  friends  was  eminently  correct,  and  often  there 
after  in  social  converse  have  we  talked  o'er  and  o'er  the  surroundings 
and  associations  of  those  friends,  who  had  selected  their  new  homes, 
by  reason  of  business  relations  or  choice,  in  the  mild  and  salubrious 
climate  of  his  own  district  or  in  the  bracing,  invigorating,  and  life- 
giving  atmosphere  of  mine. 

When  we  the  Representatives  separated  at  the  holiday  vacation  to 
return  to  our  homes  to  enjoy  that  festive  season,  no  member  on  this 
floor  could  have  looked  forward  with  more  certainty  of  life  than  he, 
none  surely  bore  greater  external  evidence  of  health  than  he,  and 
when,  immediately  upon  our  return,  with  bated  breath  and  whisper 
ing  sound  we  were  told  that  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  dead — when 
scarcely  one  knew  that  he  was  sick — the  involuntary  exclamation 
from  each  was,  "Who  next?" 

Fifteen  days  had  not  elapsed  since  Williams  and  Douglas  had  gone. 
Tis  true  their  hairs  were  silvered,  their  cheeks  were  furrowed,  and 
their  eyes  were  dimmed,  yet  their  deaths  were  unexpected,  ay,  they 
were  sudden;  yet  we  consoled  ourselves  with  the  reflection  "  age  brings 


LIFE    AND    CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  51 

death, "  and  none  supposed  that  our  friend  with  such  a  fine  physique, 
in  early  manhood,  with  vigorous  health,  would  be  the  next  victim;  but 
the  destroyer  came,  disregarding  all  these  apparent  safeguards  of  life, 
and  severed  at  a  blow  the  relations  of  husband,  father,  friend,  and 
colleague. 

It  is  for  me  simply  to  add  my  tribute  to  him  as  a  friend  and 
colleague. 

As  a  friend,  he  was  true,  honorable,  actuated  by  principle,  moder 
ate  in  counsel,  just  in  estimate,  with  a  suavity  of  manner,  gentleness 
of  expression,  and  a  heart  full  to  overflowing  with  tender  and  kind 
emotions.  All  who  came  in  contact  with  him  were  attracted  by  his 
personal  magnetism,  and  by  his  equable  temperament  and  strong  will 
he  retained  all  that  came. 

As  a  legislator,  he  was  broad,  liberal,  and  conservative.  Although 
a  Southern  Representative,  his  whole  legislative  life  was  but  an  earnest 
that  his  fondest  hope,  his  heart's  desire  was  for  a  united  country,  a 
Union  reconstructed  on  the  basis  of  love,  mutual  confidence,  and 
mutual  interests;  for  when  poisoned  shafts  for  party  purposes  have 
been  hurled  in  this  Chamber,  to  incite  old  passions  and  revive  dead 
issues  that  have  been  quenched  in  blood,  he  allowed  them  to  fall 
upon  the  "bosses  of  his  buckler"  unheeded,  and  if  they  pierced 
through  and  punctured  the  finer  recesses  of  his  soul,  and  rankled  in 
his  heart,  yet  he  never  plucked  them  out  and  hurled  them  back.  He 
felt  that  he  was  serving  his  native  South  to  better  advantage  and  in 
citing  his  common  country  to  acts  of  reconciliation  and  love  by  clos 
ing  the  wound  from  public  gaze  and  allowing  time  to  do  equal  and 
exact  justice.  Time  moves  slow,  but  will  overtake  with  vengeance 
that  one,  or  combination,  that  attempts  for  party  success  or  personal 
ambition  to  revive  the  issues  of  the  dead  past.  Oh,  when  will  states 
men,  when  will  Representatives  learn  the  lesson  of  the  hour,  and 
answer  responsive  to  the  throbbings  of  the  great  heart  of  the  Ameri 
can  people  when  they  cry  out,  "Let  the  dead  Past  bury  its  dead!" 


52  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  CUTLER  ON  THE 

The  American  people  with  uplifted  hands  are  begging,  beseeching, 
praying,  that  we  shall  legislate  for  the  present  and  the  future.  We 
have  learned  the  fearful  lesson  taught  of  the  past;  we  have  drank  of 
its  bitter  waters;  let  those  lessons  and  those  draughts  be  a  reminder 
to  us  that  our  care  is  for  the  prosperity  and  happiness  of  a  people 
united  under  a  common  flag  with  a  common  object  and  for  a  common 
destiny;  and  I  cannot  refrain  from  quoting  here  the  words  of  a  dis 
tinguished  member  on  this  floor,  Mr.  'GARFIELD,  of  Ohio,  at  the 
commencement  of  this  session,  when  he  said : 

So  far  as  I  have  studied  the  current  of  public  thought  and  of  political  feeling  in 
this  country,  no  feeling  has  shown  itself  more  strongly  than  the  tendency  of  the 
public  mind  in  the  past  few  months.  The  man  who  attempts  to  get  up  a  political 
excitement  in  this  country  on  the  old  sectional  issues  will  find  himself  without  a 
party  and  without  support. 

Mr.  Speaker,  to  show  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  in  the  double  relation  of 
friend  and  legislator,  I  extract  from  one  of  his  speeches  the  follow 
ing.  It  was  in  the  heat  of  debate,  without  preparation. 

The  object  of  the  introduction  of  this  amendment  is  self-evident.  The  partisan 
purpose  which  it  is  intended  to  subserve  is  easily  recognized  by  every  intelligent 
mind.  I  should  not  rise  to  oppose  it  were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  it  does  gross  in 
justice  to  an  honorable  and  gallant  gentleman,  and  endeavors  to  cast  an  imputation 
upon  a  portion  of  the  people  of  the  State  which  I  have  the  honor  in  part  to  represent. 

The  people  of  Augusta,  Georgia,  have  no  immediate  Representative  on  this  floor. 
The  hand  of  Providence  pressing  heavily  upon  their  gifted  Representative  pre 
vents  him  from  raising  his  voice,  as  he  would  do  if  here,  in  defense  of  the  honor  of 
his  constituents ;  but  there  is  no  Georgian  upon  this  floor  who  will  not  feel  it  his 
duty,  his  pride,  and  his  pleasure  to  enter  his  protest  against  any  imputation  such 
as  that  conveyed  by  this  amendment  against  a  community  distinguished  for  its  in 
telligence,  for  its  integrity,  for  its  virtue,  and  for  its  obedience  to  the  laws  and  the 
Constitution. 

An  investigation  is  going  on  conducted  by  the  governor  of  South  Carolina 
through  his  official  agents,  his  attorney-general,  his  adjutant-general,  and  his 
coroners  holding  inquests  over  the  bodies  of  those  unfortunate  dead.  It  would 


LIFE   AND    CHARACTER   OF  JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  53 

have  been  well  to  have  waited  until  that  inquest  had  given  to  the  world  the  result 
of  its  determination  before  casting  this  fire-brand  into  this  assembly. 

His  earnest  desire  was  for  a  reunited  country,  and  to  the  accom 
plishment  of  that  end  he  devoted  his  entire  energy.  His  whole  legis 
lative  life  was  imbued  with  the  principle,  "  On  earth  peace,  good  will 
toward  men";  and  he  became  a  power,  for  in  addition  to  the  natural 
magnetism  of  his  nature  he  possessed  a  cultured  mind,  strict  integrity, 
unvarying  principle,  and  fervid  eloquence. 

How  well  I  remember,  never  shall  I  forget,  and  in  memory  I  see 
him  now,  as  he  stood  then,  where  I  now  stand  under  the  aegis  of  his 
own  noble  and  beloved  State,  looking  up  to  the  emblem  of  her  sover 
eignty  and  drawing  inspiration  from  it,  with  what  feeling,  with  what 
pathos,  with  what  eloquence,  was  answered  by  the  involuntary  and 
prolonged  responses  of  applause  that  re-echoed  through  the  halls  of 
this  Chamber,  not  only  from  the  members  but  from  the  crowded 
galleries,  when  he  uttered  the  following  tribute  to  his  native  State : 

Sir,  I  stand  almost  beneath  the  coat  of  arms  of  my  native  State,  engraved  upon 
the  ceiling  of  this  Hall.  There  is  the  arch  of  the  Constitution,  supported  by  the 
three  pillars,  upon  which  respectively  are  inscribed  the  words  "Wisdom",  "Jus 
tice",  and  "Moderation".  If  these  three  words  can  be  the  talismans  to  control 
our  action — wisdom  in  the  concert  of  measures,  justice  in  executing  them  for  the 
benefit  of  all  alike,  moderation  in  the  exercise  of  power — if  we  will  act  under  the 
inspiration  of  those  words,  and  so  contain  and  so  control  ourselves,  we  will  hand 
down  and  perpetuate  for  posterity  the  great  principles  of  constitutional  liberty. 
[Applause.] 

"  Dust  to  dust,  earth  to  earth,  ashes  to  ashes,"  have  been  spoken 
over  his  grave,  yet  he  lives  and  always  will  live  in  our  memory;  and 
his  colleagues  in  the  Forty-fourth  and  Forty-fifth  Congresses  will 
always  refer  to  him  with  no  other  feelings  but  those  of  pleasure,  and 
will  ever  speak  of  him  as  a  friend  sincere,  a  man  true,  a  legislator 
pure.  I  loved  him  as  a  friend  for  his  sincerity;  I  sorrow  for  him  as 
a  legislator  for  his  purity  and  patriotism;  he  was  ever  forgetful  of 
self.  I  admired  him  as  a  colleague,  for  he  had  talents  the  possession 


54  ADDRESS    OF    MR.    BELL   ON   THE 

of  which  it  was  not  a  sin  for  any  of  us  to  envy  him  in  the  enjoyment 
of,  and  had  virtues  which  we  ought  to  emulate. 
I  mourn  him  gone,  but  he  is  not  dead,  for — 

There  is  no  death!     The  stars  go  down 

To  rise  upon  some  fairer  shore; 
And  right  in  heaven's  jeweled  crown 

They  shine  forever  more. 

There  is  no  death !     An  angel  form 
Walks  o'er  the  earth  with  silent  tread; 

He  bears  the  beloved  things  away, 
And  then  we  call  them  "dead." 

Born  into  that  undying  life, 

They  leave  us  but  to  to  come  again; 
With  joy  we  welcome  them — the  same 

Except  in  sin  and  pain. 

And  ever  near,  as  though  unseen, 

The  dear  immortal  spirits  tread; 
For  all  the  boundless  universe 

Is  life — there  is  no  death ! 


ADDRESS    OF    yVS-R.    J3ELL,    OF    jGrEORGIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  The  whole  country  received  the  announcement  that 
JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  dead,  with  consternation  and  sorrow.  The 
people  of  Georgia  have  enshrined  his  memory  in  their  hearts  and 
placed  upon  his  bier  their  immortelles,  dripping  with  the  tears  of 
their  anguish.  The  summons  came  to  him  in  the  vigor  of  his  man 
hood  and  the  full  maturity  of  his  powers,  and  closed  a  useful  and 
brilliant  career  with  scarcely  a  note  of  warning.  We  are  prepared 
for  the  demise  of  the  aged  and  the  infirm,  and  we  watch  the  flicker 
ing  of  life's  lamp  in  them  with  emotions  similar  to  those  with  which 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  55 

we  look  upon  the  mellow  glow  of  a  summer  sunset.  The  grave  then 
loses  something  of  its  terrors  as  we  contemplate  it  as  the  resting- 
place  of  a  weary  pilgrimage.  Ignoring  the  sad  truth  that  humanity 
is  subjected  to  the  universal  law  of  suffering  and  death,  we  assign 
to  life's  duration  the  limit  which  age  alone  prescribes.  We  seem  to 
forget  that — 

Leaves  have  their  time  to  fall, 

And  flowers  to  wither  at  the  north  wind's  breath, 
And  stars  to  set; — but  all, 

Thou  hast  all  seasons  for  thine  own,  O  Death ! 

Death  palsies  the  arm  of  the  warrior,  and  he  drops  from  his  nerve 
less  grasp  the  shattered  spear.  It  stills  the  tongue  of  the  orator, 
and  the  senate  and  the  forum  are  silent.  It  severs  the  chord  in  the 
tide  of  song,  and  the  harp  of  the  minstrel  hangs  upon  the  willow. 
It  drinks  from  the  blushes  of  beauty  the  mingled  hues  of  the  rose 
and  lily,  and  the  reptiles  of  the  grave  banquet  upon  the  lips  our  love 
has  pressed.  Every  age  and  every  clime  is  monumental  with  its 
symbols  and  strewn  with  the  trophies  of  its  conquests. 

And  still  we  are  startled  when  its  victim  is  selected  from  the 
strong,  suddenly  stricken  down  in  the  full-orbed  splendor  of  man 
hood's  high  meridian,  leaving  exalted  position  vacant,  and  forever 
blighting  the  promise  of  future  honor  and  usefulness  to  country  and 
kind.  The  estimation  in  which  the  lamented  HARTRIDGE  was  held 
by  the  people  of  his  native  State  is  shown  by  the  honors  conferred 
upon  him  living,  and  the  grief  with  which  they  mourn  him  dead. 
He  was  born  in  the  city  of  Savannah,  and  spent  the  gambols  of  his 
childhood  and  won  the  triumphs  of  his  manhood  in  that  beautiful 
city  that  keeps  vigil  like  a  weeping  vestal  over  the  repose  of  his  ashes. 

JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  commenced  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  State  and  completed  it  at  Brown  University  in  Rhode 
Island,  graduating  with  high  distinction.  He  selected  the  law  as  his 
profession  and  attended  for  a  period  the  law  school  at  Cambridge, 


56  ADDRESS    OF    MR.    BELL    ON    THE 

Massachusetts.  Soon  after  his  admission  to  the  bar  the  people  of 
his  country,  always  distinguished  for  their  wisdom  in  selecting  their 
ablest  men  for  official  trusts,  returned  him  to  the  legislature,  in 
which,  at  a  bound,  he  placed  himself  in  the  front  rank  of  the  wise 
men  of  the  State  as  an  eloquent  speaker,  ready  debater,  and  prac 
tical  legislator.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  historic  national  Dem- 
ocrati  cconvention  that  met  in  Charleston  in  1860.  Returned 
to  the  Confederate  Congress  in  1861,  he  was  re-elected  in  1863 
and  served  as  a  member  of  that  body  during  the  existence  of  the 
Confederacy. 

He  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Demo 
cratic  party  of  the  State  of  Georgia  in  1871,  delegate  for  the  State  at 
large  to  the  national  Democratic  convention  in  1872,  and  elector  for 
the  State  at  large  on  the  Greeley  and  Brown  ticket  in  the  Presidential 
campaign.  He  was  elected  a  Representative  from  the  first  district  of 
Georgia  to  the  Forty-fourth  Congress  and  re-elected  to  the  Forty-fifth, 
of  which  he  was  an  honored  and  useful  member  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  He  was  always  fully  equal  to  the  emergency  surrounding  him, 
discharging  the  duties  of  every  official  position  to  which  he  was  called 
to  the  gratification  of  his  friends  and  the  admiration  of  his  enemies. 
He  recognized  in  the  law  a  jealous  mistress,  and  paid  chivalric  court 
at  her  shrine.  He  entered  the  lists  for  professional  trial  and  profes 
sional  triumph  with  a  bar  illustrated  with  the  learning  and  adorned 
with  the  virtues  of  Berrien,  Charlton,  and  Law,  and  soon  the  lance  of 
the  youthful  knight  was  gleaming  at  its  head.  He  was  elected  by  the 
legislature  solicitor-general  of  the  eastern  judicial  circuit,  and  the  cer 
tainty  with  which  criminals  were  convicted  and  crime  punished  at 
tested  the  ability  and  fidelity  with  which  he  met  the  obligations  and 
discharged  the  duties  of  that  responsible  office. 

His  thorough  culture,  his  sense  of  justice,  his  love  of  right,  and  his 
powers  of  analysis  eminently  fitted  him  for  success  at  the  bar.  His 
statement  of  the  questions  of  law  in  his  case  had  the  clearness  and 


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force  of  argument,  and  his  representation  of  the  facts  the  merit  of 
fairness  and  candor.  Repudiating  mere  dicta  as  authority,  he  vener 
ated  the  precedents  established  by  the  great  lights  of  the  law  based 
upon  authority  and  sustained  by  reason.  He  seized  with  promptness 
the  controlling  points  of  his  case  and  fortified  them  with  authority 
until  his  position  was  impregnable,  and  then  assailed  his  adversary 
in  his  weak  points  by  harassing  sorties  from  his  chosen  stronghold. 
His  position  thus  taken  and  his  authorities  arranged,  he  brought  to 
his  argument  the  aid  of  a  style  of  singular  vigor  and  perspicuity. 
He  aroused  the  indignation  of  juries  against  wrong  with  blistering 
invective  and  won  them  to  his  cause  and  his  client  with  the  appeals 
of  a  melting  pathos. 

He  added  to  a  handsome  person  the  accomplishment  of  graceful 
action  and  the  power  of  a  charming  voice.  His  elocution  was 
faultless;  you  could  neither  add  nor  reject  a  word  without  mar 
ring  its  beauty  or  impairing  its  harmony.  The  sentences  were  so 
constructed  as  to  evolve  the  exact  thought  with  the  greatest  possi 
ble  force,  and  to  flow  in  "Pierian  streams  of  transparent,  cool, 
and  sweet."  The  multitude  hung  like  the  bees  of  Hybla  upon  his 
lips  to  catch  the  sweetness  his  eloquence  distilled.  His  mind, 
trained  in  the  disputations  of  the  forum  in  intellectual  gladiatorship 
with  lawyers  of  the  highest  order  of  ability,  who  came  together 
like  electric  clouds,  flashing  as  they  met,  acquired  wonderful  powers 
of  activity  and  concentration;  and  these  powers,  marshaled  by  him 
for  the  ascertainment  and  defense  of  truth,  were  wielded  with  the 
skill  of  a  master. 

The  truth  was  his  guiding  star  in  all  his  investigations.  He  sought 
it  by  the  nearest  ways  and  plainest  methods  that  earnest  inquiry  and 
thorough  search  could  discover.  His  resources  of  learning  supplied 
him  with  rich  stores  of  classical  illustration  which  were  used  not  to 
embellish,  but  to  intensify  his  logic.  Criminal  prosecutions  involving 
the  death  penalty  fully  developed  his  transcendent  powers  of  advo- 


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58  ADDRESS    OF    MR.    BELL   ON    THE 

cacy.  The  announcement  that  HARTRIDGE  would  address  the  jury 
in  a  murder  case  was  the  signal  for  an  admiring  multitude  to  crowd 
the  court-room.  The  reports  of  the  supreme  court  of  Georgia  con 
tain  the  evidence  of  his  research  and  learning  as  a  jurist.  He  was 
averse  to  the  irksome  drudgery  of  routine  labor,  but  delighted  in  the 
investigation  and  solution  of  new  and  difficult  problems  of  law  and 
political  economy.  Brave  as  Caesar,  he  was  modest  as  a  maiden. 
He  had  an  exalted  conception  of  the  amenities  and  proprieties  of  life 
in  its  private,  professional,  and  public  relations. 

He  seldom  spoke  in  the  House  of  Representatives,  his  sensitive 
nature  revolting  at  the  struggle  for  the  floor  which  frequently  char 
acterizes  its  proceedings,  and  his  modesty  recoiling  at  the  thought  of 
thrusting  a  speech  on  unwilling  auditors;  but  when  he  did  speak  he 
always  confined  himself  to  the  question,  enlightened  the  House,  and 
commanded  its  attention.  His  speech  on  the  electoral  commission, 
and  the  one  delivered  at  the  last  session  on  the  bill  to  prevent  the 
introduction  into  the  United  States  of  contagious  and  infectious  dis 
eases,  are  fine  models  of  parliamentary  eloquence.  The  world  is 
unwilling  to  concede  excellence  in  more  than  one  department  of 
intellectual  superiority,  but  his  professional  brethren  who  knew  him 
best  have  accorded  to  him  rare  powers  of  advocacy  and  great  learning 
as  a  jurist,  and  by  common  consent  have  assigned  him  his  position 
at  their  head. 

Of  his  statesmanship  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to  speak  in  this  pres 
ence;  decided  in  his  convictions,  ardent  in  his  patriotism,  comprehen 
sive  in  his  views,  and  intensely  devoted  to  the  Constitution  of  his 
country,  he  was  a  model  Representative  of  an  intelligent  and  patriotic 
constituency.  To  appreciate  the  social  qualities  of  JULIAN  HART- 
RIDGE  it  was  necessary  to  know  him  intimately.  Beneath  an  appar 
ently  cold  exterior  was  concealed  an  affluence  of  genial  nature,  warm 
friendship,  and  tender  sensibility.  At  his  desk,  during  the  last  ses 
sion  of  Congress,  he  grasped  my  hand  warmly,  and  in  the  absence  of 


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any  suggestion  leading  or  referring  to  the  subject,  with  evident  emo 
tion  said : 

I  am  regarded  as  cold,  distant,  and  proud,  but  no  man  has  ever  been  so  misunder 
stood;  there  never  was  a  greater  mistake.  There  never  was  a  warmer  heart  than 
mine.  The  truth  is,  it  arises  from  a  defect  in  my  vision.  I  am  near-sighted,  and 
cannot  recognize  my  dearest  friends  at  any  distance  from  me.  I  would  give  the 
world  if  it  were  otherwise. 

Although  I  had  been  acquainted  with  him  for  twenty  years,  I 
never  knew  nor  appreciated  him  until  that  moment.  It  developed 
in  him  the  possession  of  a  large  endowment  of  those  rare  and  high 
qualities  which  constitute  the  charm  of  social  life,  beautifully  and 
comprehensively  called — 

The  softer  green  of  the  soul. 

His  countrymen  have  twined  for  his  memory  the  wreath  of  laurel 
and  cypress — the  insignia  of  their  pride  and  the  symbol  of  their  sor 
row;  and  his  friends  have  dropped  upon  his  new-made  grave  friend 
ship's  last  offering,  the  tribute  of  their  tears. 

But  strew  his  ashes  to  the  wind 

Whose  sword  or  voice  has  served  mankind — 

And  is  he  dead,  whose  glorious  mind 

Lifts  thine  on  high  ? — 
To  live  in  hearts  we  leave  behind, 

Is  not  to  die. 

In  the  death  of  my  late  colleague  the  Republic  has  lost  a  patriotic 
citizen  and  a  wise  statesman,  the  profession  an  eloquent  advocate 
and  a  learned  jurist,  society  a  courtly  gentleman  and  a  brilliant 
ornament,  and  his  family  a  devoted  husband  and  affectionate  father. 
All  that  is  left  to  them  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  is  the  heritage  of  his 
wisdom,  the  light  of  his  example,  and  the  memory  of  his  virtues. 
Time  will  mitigate  our  grief,  and  in  the  rush  and  whirl  of  busy  life 
other  thoughts  will  engage  our  attention,  but  there  is  a  sad  home  in 


60  ADDRESS    OF    MR.    FELTON    ON   THE 

the  sunny  South  within  whose  broken  circle  there  are  bleeding  heart? 
for  the  healing  of  which  earth  has  no  balm. 

For  time  makes  all  but  true  love  old; 
The  burning  thoughts  that  then  were  told 
Run  molten  still  in  memory's  mold, 

And  will  not  cool 
Until  the  heart  itself  be  cold 
In  Lethe's  pool. 

The  influence  of  wealth,  the  resources  of  learning,  and  the  author 
ity  of  power,  all  stand  dumb  and  helpless  in  the  presence  of  death. 
It  is  the  solution  of  all  the  rivalries,  struggles,  and  achievements  of 
time.  Surrounded  with  blighted  hopes  and  funeral  trains,  the  broken 
heart  of  humanity  through  all  time  has  pressed  the  question  of  the 
suffering  patriarch  of  Uz,  "  If  a  man  die  shall  he  live  again  ?  "  The 
quivering  spirit  whose  insatiable  thirst  for  immortality  attests  the 
divinity  of  its  origin  and  the  duration  of  its  destiny,  kindles  with  joy 
as  it  catches  the  response  from  the  rejected  Nazarine  at  Bethany,  "  I 
am  the  resurrection  and  the  life;  he  that  believeth  in  Me,  though  he 
were  dead,  yet  shall  he  live." 

Poor  wanderers  of  a  stormy  day, 

From  place  to  place  we  're  driven, 
And  fancy's  flash  and  reason's  ray 
Serve  but  to  light  the  troubled  way, — 

There's  nothing  true  but  heaven. 

And  false  the  light  on  glory's  plume, 

As  fading  hues  of  even, 
And  love  and  joy  and  beauty's  bloom 
Are  blossoms  gathered  for  the  tomb, — 

There 's  nothing  lives  but  heaven. 


ADDRESS    OF    y\lR.    ^ELTON,     OF    pEOR^GIA. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  "In  the  midst  of  life  we  are  in  death."     This  is 
one  of  the  most  impressive  sentences  in  the  English  language.     We 


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may  delude  ourselves  that  the  "dread  destroyer"  is  far  from  us; 
that  we  are  strong  and  authorized  to  rejoice  in  our  strength,  but  we 
never  remain  undisturbed  in  our  fancied  security. 

Every  day  we  see  the  great  in  fame,  the  mighty  in  wealth,  and  the 
beautiful  in  health  fall  around  us.  Nothing  is  secure.  Death  alone 
is  certain. 

The  business  pursuits  of  life  may  be  engaging  and  active;  family 
and  friends  may  gather  near,  and  their  loving  dependence  may  bind 
them  closer  to  us;  highways  of  pleasure  fringed  with  perpetual 
spring,  may  stretch  out  before  us,  and  we  may  see  in  the  future  rich 
and  fruitful  rewards  for  our  labors;  political  and  professional  honors 
may  wreathe  themselves  around  the  brow,  while  a  cultivated  intel 
lect,  quickened  by  a  laudable  ambition,  gives  assurance  of  increasing 
distinction  and  greater  usefulness :  yet, 

The  hour  concealed  and  so  remote  the  fear, 
Death  draws  still  nearer,  never  seeming  near. 

My  deceased  colleague,  Hon.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  was  honored 
by  Georgia  in  early  life.  When  he  was  a  young  man  the  State 
placed  him  in  important  positions  of  public  trust,  and  his  future 
promised  a  long  continuance  of  well-deserved  honors  and  an  increase 
of  public  duties  which  he  would  have  met  zealously  and  with  credit 
to  himself  and  to  his  native  State. 

His  legal  ability  was  generally  recognized,  and  whether  he  sought 
distinction  as  a  statesman  or  as  a  jurist,  the  path  seemed  easy  of 
access,  leading  to  a  realization  of  his  fondest  hopes. 

Surrounded  by  a  beautiful  family,  blessed  with  an  attractive  home, 
honors  hanging  plentifully  over  his  head,  and  rejoicing  in  the  strength 
of  mature  manhood,  the  destroyer  marked  him  for  his  own,  and,  with 
the  briefest  warning,  he  was  called  to  leave  all  life's  treasures  and 
enter  the  unknown  world. 

I  add  my  tribute  of  respect  and  admiration  for  this  noble  Georgian, 


62  ADDRESS    OF    MR.    FELTON. 

and  desire  to  unite  with  the  people  of  my  State  in  the  grief  with 
which  they  mourn  his  loss. 

No  feeble  words  of  mine  will  add  to  his  fame;  nor  can  I  express 
the  grief  felt  or  the  great  loss  which  our  State  has  sustained  in  giving 
up  this  favored  son.  He  does  not  need  the  voice  of  eulogy.  His 
record  is  inscribed  upon  the  history  of  his  State.  With  heartfelt 
sympathy  for  the  inmates  of  that  home  made  desolate  by  his  untimely 
death,  and  gratefully  reverencing  the  memory  of  a  colleague  who 
fell  at  his  post  of  duty,  we  take  our  final  adieu.  I  was  at  his  bedside 
a  few  hours  before  his  death.  I  found  him  calm  and  hopeful — a 
philosopher,  a  scholar,  a  statesman,  and  a  patriot  awaiting  his  end. 

The  question  was  taken  upon  the  resolutions,  and  they  were  unani 
mously  agreed  to;  and  thereupon  (at  five  o'clock  and  twenty-five 
minutes  p.  m.)  the  House  adjourned. 


PROCEEDINGS     IN     THE     SENATE. 


JANUARY  9,  1879. 

A  message  from  the  House  of  Representatives,  by  Mr.  GEORGE 
M.  ADAMS,  its  Clerk,  announced  that  the  House  had  passed  a  resolu 
tion  providing  that  the  funeral  ceremonies  of  Hon.  JULIAN  HART- 
RIDGE,  late  a  Representative  in  that  body  from  the  State  of  Georgia, 
shall  be  held  at  three  o'clock  p.  m.  this  day  in  the  Hall  of  the  House 
of  Representatives,  and  inviting  the  Senate  to  attend  at  that  hour. 

The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  resolutions  of  the  House  of  Repre 
sentatives  will  be  reported  by  the  Secretary. 

The  resolutions  were  read,  as  follows : 

IN  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  January  g,  1879. 

Resolved,  That  the  funeral  ceremonies  of  Hon.  JULIAN  HART- 
RIDGE,  late  a  Representative  in  this  body  from  the  State  of  Georgia, 
be  held  at  three  o'clock  p.  m.  this  day  in  this  Hall. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  communicate  the  foregoing  resolution  to 
the  Senate  and  invite  the  Senate  to  attend  the  said  funeral  cere 
monies. 

Mr.  ANTHONY.  Mr.  President,  I  offer  the  following  resolution  and 
ask  for  its  consideration : 

Resolved,  That,  pursuant  to  the  invitation  of  the  House  of  Repre 
sentatives,  the  Senate  will  attend  the  funeral  ceremony  of  Hon. 
JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  late  a  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
from  the  State  of  Georgia,  in  the  Hall  of  the  House  of  Representa 
tives  this  day  at  three  o'clock. 

The  resolution  was  considered  and  agreed  to  unanimously. 

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64  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  GORDON  ON  THE 

Mr.  ANTHONY.  Mr.  President,  the  resolution  of  the  Senate  pro 
vided  that  the  Senate  should  proceed  at  three  o'clock  to  the  Hall  of 
the  House.  I  understand  that  it  is  desirable  that  the  Senators  should 
be  seated  there  by  three  o'clock.  I  move,  therefore,  that  the  Senate 
now  proceed  to  the  Hall  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  the  Senate  proceeded  to  the  Hall 
of  the  House  of  Representatives,  headed  by  the  Vice-President  and 
Secretary,  and  preceded  by  the  Sergeant-at-Arms. 

The  Senate  returned  to  its  Chamber  at  four  o'clock  and  fifteen 
minutes  p.  m.,  and  the  Vice-President  resumed  the  chair. 

Mr.  ANTHONY.  Mr.  President,  I  move  that  the  Senate  do  now 
adjourn. 

The  VICE-PRESIDENT.  The  Senator  from  Rhode  Island  moves 
that  the  Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  (at  four  o'clock  and  sixteen  min 
utes  p.  m.)  the  Senate  adjourned. 


MARCH  i,  1879. 

Mr.  GORDON.  Mr.  President,  I  move  that  the  Senate  now  pro 
ceed  to  the  consideration  of  the  resolutions  of  the  House  of  Repre 
sentatives  on  the  death  of  Hon.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  of  Georgia. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER.     The  resolutions  will  be  reported. 

The  resolutions  were  read,  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  this  House  has  heard  with  profound  regret  of  the 
death  of  Hon.  JULIX\N  HARTRIDGE,  a  Representative  from  the  State 
of  Georgia. 

Resolved,  That  the  House  do  now  suspend  the  consideration  of 
other  business,  in  order  to  pay  proper  respect  to  the  memory  of  the 
lamented  deceased. 

Resolved,  That  in  token  of  regard  for  the  memory  of  the  lamented 


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deceased  the  members  of  this  House  do  wear  the  usual  badge  of 
mourning  for  thirty  days. 

Resolved,  That  the  Clerk  of  this  House  do  communicate  these 
resolutions  to  the  Senate  of  the  United  States. 

Resolved,  That  out  of  further  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  de 
ceased  this  House  do  now  adjourn. 

Mr.  GORDON.     Mr.  President,  I  offer  the  following  resolutions: 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  receives  with  sincere  regret  the  announce 
ment  of  the  death  of  Hon.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE,  late  a  member  of  the 
House  of  Representatives  from  the  State  of  Georgia,  and  tenders  to 
the  family  and  kindred  of  the  deceased  the  assurance  of  sympathy 
under  their  sad  bereavement. 

Resolved,  That  as  a  mark  of  respect  for  the  memory  of  the  deceased 
the  members  and  officers  of  the  Senate  will  wear  the  usual  badge  of 
mourning  for  thirty  days. 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  be  directed  to  transmit  to  the  family 
of  the  deceased  a  copy  of  these  resolutions. 


ADDRESS  OF    M.R.    GORDON,  OF    GEORGIA. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  No  higher  tribute  can  be  paid  to  our  common 
humanity  than  to  assert  the  truth  that  no  man  dies  without  leaving 
some  mourner  over  his  ashes.  No  life  is  so  obscure,  its  light  so 
dim,  but  that  its  going  out  leaves  a  shadow  on  some  other  life,  and 
the  length  of  that  shadow,  the  extent  of  the  sorrow  felt  at  his  death, 
is  in  some  degree  the  measure  of  a  man's  usefulness  while  living. 

Tested  by  this  rule,  the  distinguished  man  to  whose  memory  we 
now  pay  tribute  had  already  filled,  though  scarcely  in  the  prime  of 
his  manhood,  a  sphere  of  exalted  and  extended  usefulness. 

Born  and  reared  amid  the  refinements  of  the  most  cultivated 
society;  accustomed  to  the  companionship  of  the  ablest  and  most 


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66  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  GORDON  ON  THE 

distinguished  men  of  his  State  and  section;  commanding  the  respect 
and  even  the  admiration  of  the  Representatives  of  the  entire  Union, 
with  whom  he  had  served,  he  nevertheless  won  and  held  to  the  last 
the  confidence,  esteem,  and  affection  of  the  unlettered,  the  poor,  and 
the  friendless  among  his  constituents.  His  generous  philanthropy 
and  noble  sympathies  touched  the  whole  circle  of  humanity  at  its 
every  point,  and  all  classes  and  creeds  among  the  people  he  served 
mourned  his  death  as  that  of  a  champion  and  friend. 

It  was  my  fortune,  sir,  to  be  one  of  the  committee  who  bore  back 
to  his  home  by  the  sea  and  to  a  confiding  constituency  all  that  was 
mortal  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE.  It  was  my  fortune  to  observe  the 
extent  of  the  loss  to  his  people  and  the  demonstrations  of  popular 
affection,  of  gratitude,  and  of  grief.  Could  you,  sir,  have  witnessed, 
as  I  did,  the  spectacle  of  the  entire  population  of  his  native  city 
thronging  its  streets  and  following  his  remains  to  the  grave,  you 
would  agree  with  me  that  it  was  a  demonstration  worthy  the  memory 
of  any  man.  Such  an  exhibition  of  sorrow,  felt  alike  by  both  races, 
at  the  death  of  a  Representative  from  a  Southern  State,  under  the 
peculiar  untoward  circumstances  which  surround  us,  will  be,  when 
rightly  understood,  a  revelation  and  a  sermon  to  those  who  now 
misapprehend  us.  Like  every  true  Representative  of  Southern  senti 
ment,  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  was  a  friend  to  the  colored  race,  receiving 
its  recognition  and  gratitude  while  he  lived  and  its  homage  when 
dead.  I  ask  permission  in  this  connection  to  quote  from  a  speech 
made  by  him  during  an  exciting  debate  in  the  House  of  Representa 
tives.  He  said,  referring  to  the  colored  race : 

There  is  some  feeling  on  our  part  toward  this  race  among  whom  we  were  born 
and  reared,  and  with  whom  we  daily  live.  There  is  scarcely  one  of  us  upon  this 
floor  from  that  section  who  can  look  back  to  the  days  of  his  infancy  or  childhood 
without  seeing  something  to  bring  up  pleasant  and  loved  memories  in  connection 
with  this  race.  For  my  part,  were  I  to  seek  to  outrage  this  colored  race,  there 
would  rise  up  to  rebuke  me  the  memory  of  the  nurse  of  my  infant  years — the  mem 
ory  of  her  whose  bosom,  although  dark  with  the  hue  of  slavery,  yet  tenderly  and 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN   HARTRIDGE.  67 

softly  pillowed  my  infant  head;  whose  hands,  although  hardened  by  toil,  yet  kindly 
ministered  to  my  infant  wants ;  whose  voice,  although  untrained  and  untutored, 
sweetly  sang  the  lullaby  that  soothed  my  infant  slumbers.  I  tell  you,  gentlemen, 
there  are  ties  of  interest,  there  are  ties  of  policy,  there  are  ties  of  memory  and  the 
best  emotions  of  the  heart  to  bind  the  white  people  of  the  South  to  the  colored 
race.  [Applause.] 

Sir,  to  the  sincerity  with  which  he  spoke  these  eloquent  words,  let 
the  scene  I  am  about  to  describe  bear  witness.  Around  the  hall  in 
which  his  remains  were  laid,  and  along  the  streets  and  at  his  grave, 
were  the  congregated  thousands  of  Savannah's  colored  inhabitants. 
In  the  formal  and  grand  procession  which  escorted  his  body  to  the 
tomb,  the  splendidly  equipped  colored  infantry  and  artillery  marched, 
at  their  own  solicitation,  with  solemn  tread  and  reverent  mien.  His 
former  slaves,  freed  from  servitude  for  more  than  thirteen  years, 
many  of  them  with  heads  whitened  by  age,  vied  with  each  other  for 
the  honor  of  bearing  his  coffin. 

But,  sir,  there  was  another  incident  connected  with  this  demon 
stration  which  I  think  worthy  of  special  mention  because  it  not 
only  bears  witness  to  the  character  of  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  and  the  sin 
cerity  of  his  professions,  but  is  a  silent,  impressive  tribute  to  that 
peculiar  institution  under  which  he  was  born  and  reared,  now  passed 
away  forever.  In  advance  of  Congressional  committee,  taking  pre 
cedence  over  distinguished  visitors  and  even  of  his  kindred,  accom 
panying  the  bereaved  wife  and  children  of  our  deceased  friend,  as 
members  of  his  immediate  household,  were  the  family  servants.  First 
among  these  was  that  old  colored  nurse,  her  form  bent  with  age  and 
quivering  with  grief,  whose  bosom,  in  his  own  impressive  language, 
had  pillowed  his  head  in  infancy,  whose  hands  had  ministered  to  his 
wants,  and  who  had  so  often  sung  her  untutored  but  gentle  "  lullaby  " 
over  his  "  infant  slumbers."  Sir,  I  am  tempted  to  say  in  this  connection 
that  there  are  myriads  of  such  ties  and  memories  which,  undisturbed 
by  adverse  influences,  would  be  the  surest,  safest,  and  most  enduring 


68  ADDRESS  OF  MR.  GORDON  ON  THE 

guarantee  of  the  progress  and  the  political  and  personal  rights  of 
both  races  at  the  South. 

Mr.  President,  I  shall  not  attempt  a  biographical  sketch  of  the  life 
of  Mr.  HARTRIDGE,  nor  make  specific  references  to  his  triumphs  at  the 
bar,  on  the  hustings,  or  in  deliberative  assemblies.  This  has  been 
done  in  a  manner  most  satisfactory  by  his  colleagues  in  the  House. 
I  prefer  to  attempt  a  brief  analysis  of  those  splendid  endowments  of 
mind,  of  heart,  and  of  person  which  so  distinguished  him. 

With  a  vigor  of  intellect  and  a  magnetic  presence  that  gave  him 
command  of  men;  with  a  rigid  integrity  and  love  of  justice  that  gave 
him  the  confidence  of  men ;  with  a  nature  the  melody  and  harmony 
of  whose  sympathies  gave  him  the  love  of  men ;  with  an  eloquence 
and  strength  of  utterance  persuasive  and  convincing ;  with  a  love  of 
his  whole  country  that  quickened  into  new  life  the  dormant  patriot 
ism  of  others,  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  of  him  that  there  is  no  height 
of  distinction  nor  breadth  of  usefulness  to  which  he  might  not  rea 
sonably  have  aspired. 

His  chief  mental  defect  seemed  to  have  been  an  indisposition  to 
great  intellectual  effort.  That  his  mind  was  one  of  unusual  brilliancy 
none  who  knew  him  well  will  deny ;  and  yet  while  his  influence  in 
the  House  was  great,  he  rarely  spoke.  There  was  in  him  a  hidden 
or  rather  repressed  power,  which,  when  fully  aroused  under  the  guid 
ance  of  a  beautiful  culture  and  of  a  heart  devoted  to  truth,  was  almost 
irresistible  before  juries  of  the  people,  or  in  deliberative  bodies. 

His  character  is  a  fit  counterpart  of  his  mental  endowments.  Too 
brave  to  know  fear,  he  shrank  from  an  act  of  cruelty  or  injustice  with 
the  timidity  of  a  child.  Too  proud  to  brook  an  insult  or  to  give  one, 
yet  his  spirit  was  as  gentle  as  a  woman's,  and  as  tender  in  the  depth 
and  sweetness  of  his  affections. 

He  was  without  hypocrisy  or  affectation,  and  so  despised  the  least 
semblance  of  ostentation  as  to  give  him  at  times  the  manner  of  austere 
reserve.  Behind  this  distant  manner,  however,  there  was  a  native 


LIFE   AND    CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.(  69 

courtesy,  sincere  and  knightly,  a  generosity  almost  prodigal,  a  capac 
ity  for  friendships  devoted  and  true,  and  a  geniality  of  temper  uni 
form  and  perennial.  How  could  he  be  otherwise?  Men  are 
molded,  Mr.  President,  not  only  by  the  influences  of  home  and  its 
associations,  but  by  the  peculiar  civilization  under  which  they  are 
reared,  and  even  by  the  climate  and  the  scenery  of  the  country 
around  them.  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  grew  up  under  a  civilization 
whose  center  was  the  home  and  the  home  affections,  under  a  cli 
mate  where  the  blue  skies  were  rarely  overcast  but  by  a  passing 
cloud,  where  the  air  was  genial,  soft,  and  balmy,  and  where  the  for 
ests  were  clad  in  perpetual  green. 

His  death,  so  sudden  and  unexpected  to  his  friends,  was  not  a  sur 
prise  to  him.  He  heard  the  muffled  tread  of  the  grim  king,  and 
spoke  freely  of  his  approach.  He  stood  calmly  on  the  verge  of  the 
undiscovered  country,  on  the  crest  of  that  great  water-shed  from 
which  flow  in  opposite  directions  the  rivers  of  time  and  of  eternity — 
the  one  backward  to  the  ever  lost,  the  other  forward  to  the  everlast 
ing  ;  and  while  we  were  yet  hoping  for  his  recovery  he  peacefully 
crossed  that  dark  line  we  all  must  pass  which  separates  this  life  from 
the  vast  and  vague  unknown.  His  career  was  short,  his  life  closing 
at  its  noon,  while  the  sun  was  still  shining  on  higher  eminences  just 
before  him.  It  closed  on  a  career  incomplete,  yet  pure,  bright,  and 
honorable,  and  before  the  shadows  of  age  had  darkened  his  intel 
lectual  vision  or  dimmed  one  ray  of  his  genius. 

In  his  beautiful  southern  home  we  have  buried  him,  near  those 
wild  and  weird  and  enchanting  solitudes  which  he  ardently  loved  and 
from  which  he  drew  so  much  inspiration  in  his  boyhood  and  maturer 
years.  Over  his  grave  will  grow  the  flowers  that  never  fade,  and 
the  ceaseless  music  of  the  pines  will  fitly  emblem  the  grief  of  his 
grateful  people. 


70  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    BOOTH   ON   THE 


ADDRESS    OF    yVlR.    JBOOTH,    OF 

Mr.  PRESIDENT  :  When  an  observance  like  this  occurs  in  the  busy 
hours  of  a  closing  session  it  is  apt  to  seem  like  an  idle  ceremony. 
The  duties  of  public  life  are  so  varied  and  pressing,  its  calls  so  inces 
sant,  its  avocations  so  absorbing,  that  there  is  little  time  left  for  senti 
ment  or  the  indulgence  of  grief. 

Our  numbers  are  constantly  changing  by  death  and  by  the  vicissi 
tudes  of  political  fortune;  but  the  leave-taking  is  short,  and  the  busi 
ness  of  to-morrow  will  make  the  grief  of  to-day  only  a  memory. 
"The  strong  hours  conquer  us."  It  will  be  so  when  we  shall  sever 
ally  disappear — even  those  of  you,  Senators,  who  play  the  greatest 
parts  on  this  great  stage.  The  actor  makes  his  exit;  and  however 
well  he  may  have  performed  his  part,  whatever  plaudits  he  may  have 
won,  the  curtain  does  not  fall,  and  the  play  goes  on. 

The  time  has  gone  by,  if  indeed  it  aver  was,  when  the  loss  of  any 
life  will  seriously  influence  the  permanent  direction  of  public  affairs. 
It  is  true  that  no  man's  place  can  be  filled  by  another;  it  is  equally 
true  that  it  is  not  essential  it  should  be.  In  the  vast  aggregate  the 
value  of  the  largest  unit  is  scarcely  appreciable.  A  heart  has  ceased 
to  beat;  it  is  one  of  millions.  The  struggle  of  a  life  has  ended;  the 
struggle  of  human  life  never  ends.  How  insignificant  is  the  individ 
ual  life  to  the  whole  of  humanity!  Yet  what  an  awful  gift  it  is  to 
each  of  its  possessors,  this  strange  personality  of  ours,  which  isolates 
us  from  all  else  and  yet  makes  all  that  is  a  part  of  us.  Nor  sun,  nor 
moon,  nor  stars,  nor  past,  nor  present  can  be,  save  as  they  are  a  part 
of  us. 

Life  with  its  possibilities  is  an  awful  gift,  and  when  it  is  bereft  the 
event  is  unspeakably  solemn.  Custom  familiarizes  us  with  the  forms 
of  death,  fashion  hides  their  significance  with  pageantry;  only  the 


LIFE    AND    CHARACTER   OF   JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  71 

"stricken  heart  of  love"  realizes  with  what  dark  eclipse  they  come. 
It  is  well  that  we  should  pause,  even  in  the  busiest  hours,  when  a 
comrade  falls,  not  more  as  a  mark  of  respect  for  his  memory  than  to 
receive  for  our  own  good  the  lesson  of  his  life  and  death. 

The  memory  of  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE  cannot  be  other  than  a  price 
less  possession,  even  in  their  sorrow,  to  those  who  loved  him.  It  was 
not  my  pleasure  to  know  him,  but  by  order  of  the  Senate  I  was  one 
of  the  committee  which  attended  his  remains  from  this  Capitol  to  the 
beautiful  city  where  he  was  born,  where  he  was  married,  where  his 
children  were  born  to  him,  where  he  had  spent  his  whole  life,  and 
where  he  is  buried  with  his  fathers.  In  that  community  which  had 
known  him  all  the  days  of  his  life,  all  his  outgoings  and  incomings, 
I  felt  that  I  knew  him  too.  There  was  a  tenderness  in  the  mention 
of  his  name  by  all  classes,  which  only  a  life  filled  with  tender  respect 
for  the  rights  and  feelings  of  others  could  have  won.  There  was  a 
warmth  of  expression  that  showed  how  he  had  grappled  his  friends 
with  hooks  of  steel.  There  was  that  high  respect  which  is  only  con 
quered  by  a  life  of  probity  and*  courage. 

I  think  his  life  must  have  been  a  happy  one.  The  lines  seem  to 
me  to  have  fallen  to  him  in  pleasant  places.  No  life  is  free  from 
struggles,  trials,  temptations,  and  failures,  of  which  the  world  little 
knows,  and  the  deepest  scars  are  within.  His  life  was  in  a  great 
epoch.  It  marks  its  great  transition,  that  the  slaves  who  had  borne 
him  on  their  backs  and  fondled  him  on  their  knees  in  his  childhood, 
as  free  men  tenderly  carried  his  body  to  the  grave;  still  loving  the 
dear  young  master,  panoplied  in  American  citizenship,  they  walked 
beside  his  hearse.  His  lot  was  cast  with  a  community  cultivated, 
tasteful,  generous,  hospitable,  and  self-respectful.  There  he  lived  for 
fifty  years,  and  dying  left  no  enemy  or  reproachful  friend.  Who  of 
us  can  desire  or  deserve  a  more  fragrant  memory  ? 


72  ADDRESS    OF   MR.    WAD  LEIGH    ON   THE 


ADDRESS  OF    MR.  JVADLEIGH,  OF  J^EW  J^AMPSHIRE. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  In  addressing  the  Senate  on  this  occasion  I  feel 
an  embarrassment  which  I  can  hardly  express.  I  had  no  personal 
acquaintance  with  JULIAN  HARTRIDGE;  he  was  known  to  me  only 
by  reputation.  Such  knowledge  illy  qualifies  me  to  speak  of  him  in 
fitting  terms.  We  acquire  in  familiar  intercourse  an  insight  into 
human  character  such  as  can  be  gained  in  no  other  way.  How  often 
in  our  experience  the  prejudices  of  half  a  life-time  disappear  in  the 
associations  we  form  in  this  Chamber.  If  the  people  of  the  differ 
ent  sections  of  our  country  could  know  each  other  as  we  do  it  would 
remove  many  common  misunderstandings  and  tend  to  national  unity. 

But  against  Mr.  HARTRIDGE  I  never  entertained  any  prejudice. 
He  seemed  one  of  those  men,  unhappily  too  rarely  found,  whose 
character  seems  to  disarm  hostile  criticism.  All  who  knew  him  seem 
to  agree  that  he  was  a  good  lawyer  a*nd  a  good  legislator;  that  his 
great  natural  powers  were  trained  and  strengthened  by  careful  educa 
tion,  and  that  beneath  a  reserved  exterior  he  had  that  warmth  of 
heart  and  those  generous  impulses  which  win  and  keep  friends.  That 
he  had  the  confidence  of  his  constituents  all  agree.  On  a  recent  oc 
casion  when  political  passion  threatened  to  fan  into  destructive  life 
the  dying  embers  of  civil  war  his  voice  and  influence  were  thrown 
into  the  scale  of  peace.  Feeling  how  much  our  country  needs  states 
men  capable  of  rising  above  the  demands  of  party  when  the  union 
and  prosperity  of  our  common  country  require  it,  I  cannot  but  mourn 
over  the  death  of  one  who  had  given  promise  of  such  patriotic 
liberality. 

Representing  as  he  did  in  part  the  Empire  State  of  the  South,  he 
could  have  aided  much  in  welding  strongly  to  the  Union  that  great 
commonwealth,  and  in  bringing  to  her  people  that  peace,  that  justice, 


LIFE   AND    CHARACTER   OF  JULIAN    HARTRIDGE.  73 

and  that  harmony  so  essential  to  her  welfare.  In  his  death  I  think 
she  has  sustained  a  great  loss. 

Can  we  look  upon  the  frequent  invasion  of  these  Halls  by  death 
without  feelings  of  deep  solemnity  and  awe?  Sir,  they  forcibly  re 
mind  us  how  frail  a  barrier  separates  us  from  the  unseen  world  to 
which  we  are  swiftly  hastening  and  of  the  imperious  duty  which  rests 
upon  us  to  conscientiously  perform  the  duties  we  owe  to  our  country 
and  our  God. 

Mr.  GORDON.     I  ask  that  the  Senate  agree  to  the  resolutions. 

The  PRESIDING  OFFICER.  The  question  is  on  agreeing  to  the 
resolutions  presented  by  the  Senator  from  Georgia. 

The  resolutions  were  agreed  to  unanimously. 

Mr.  GORDON.  I  move  as  an  additional  mark  of  respect  that  the 
Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to;  and  (at  six  o'clock  and  forty-two  min 
utes  a.  m.  Monday,  March  3)  the  Senate  adjourned. 


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